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• What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
  Thomas Paine...
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  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• The value of a report is inversely proportional to its length. -- Oosterval's postulate
• Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap.
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