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Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you
And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give...
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe the picture.
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures....
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twai...
Real computer scientists admire ADA for its overwhelming aesthetic value but they find it difficult to actually program in it, as it is much too large to implement.
Most computer scientists don'...
Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware.
Hardware has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing machines are so poor at I/O....
Real computer scientists don't comment their code. The identifiers are so long they can't afford the disk space.
Real computer scientists don't program in assembler.
They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil....
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 ap...
Real computer scientists only write specs for languages that might run on future hardware.
Nobody trusts them to write specs for anything homo sapiens will ever be able to fit on a single planet....
Real programmers disdain structured programming. Structured programming is for compulsive neurotics who were prematurely toilet- trained.
They wear neckties and carefully line up pencils on otherw...

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