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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept.
1982...
System checkpoint complete.
System going down at 1:45 this afternoon for disk crashing.
System going down at 5 this afternoon to install scheduler bug.
System going down in 5 minutes.
System restarting, wait...
System/3! System/3! See how it runs! See how it runs!
Its monitor loses so totally! It runs all its programs in RPG!...
SYSTEM-INDEPENDENT: Works equally poorly on all systems.
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad infinitum -- which is why we're always starting over.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982...
Systems programmer: A person in sandals who has been in the elevator with the senior vice president and is ultimately responsible for a phone call you are to receive from your boss.

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