And let's not forget Alan Perlis's:

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."

 https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis


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From: Toby Thain
Date:02/09/2017 18:00 (GMT+02:00)
To: Dan Cross
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society , quad
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language - Unearthed!

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Finally, a favourite quote:

  "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally
for machines to execute" -- Hal Abelson

https://twitter.com/old_sound/status/903919515884544000


--Toby


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