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THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #17: SARTRE Named after the late existential philosopher, SARTRE is an extremely unstructured language.
Statements in SARTRE have no purpose; they just are...
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #18: C- This language was named for the grade received by its creator when he submitted it as a class project in a graduate programming class.
C- is best d...
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #18: FIFTH FIFTH is a precision mathematical language in which the data types refer to quantity.
The data types range from CC, OUNCE, SHOT, and JIGGER to F...
The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train.
The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming dragon.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Alle...
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
-- Henry Kissinge...
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22...
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd.
The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been....
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
-- Mark Twain....

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