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• BCPL -> B -> C !!! No wonder C is so cryptic!
• It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for.
  -- Epitaph, Cheltenham Churchyard...
• There is no code so big, twisted, or complex that maintenance can't make it worse.
  -- Weinberg's Programming Principle #7...
• Rule of Open-Source Programming #20: Open Code != Good Code
• Real computer scientists don't write code. They occasionally tinker with `programming systems', but those are so high level that they hardly count (and rarely count accurately
  precision is for applications.)...
• Put no trust in cryptic comments.