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• Quote #6 The more I ponder the principles of language design, and the techniques which put them into practice, the more is my amazement and admiration of ALGOL 60.
  Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on neary all its successors....
• indent style n. [C, C++, and Java programmers] The rules one uses to indent code in a readable fashion.
  There are four major C indent styles, described below...
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
• C n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet.
  2. ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement Unix...
• Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xx...
• fool n. As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise
  it is not generally used in its other senses, i....
• An egg has the shortest sex-life of all: if gets laid once
  it gets eaten once. It also has to come in a box with 11 others, and the only person who will sit on its face is its mother....
• Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in applications where reliability is critical, i.
  e., nuclear power stations, cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missile defense systems....