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• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself? [A candle]
• Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. -- Stephen King
• 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&...
• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
  -- James Bryant Cona...
• Therefore with the same necessity with which the stone falls to earth
  he hungry wolf buries its fangs in the flesh of its prey without the possibility of the knowledge that it itself is the destroyed as well as the destroyer....
• There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
  -- Gene Wolfe...
• Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
  -- Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse...
• The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
  The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages....