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• Quote #6 The more I ponder the principles of language design, and the techniques which put them into practice, the more is my amazement and admiration of ALGOL 60.
  Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on neary all its successors....
• Quote #22 ``Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data structure to another.
  Their introduction into high-level languages has been a step backwards from which we may never recover'' -- C....
• Quote #4 The princicples of modularity, simplicity, or orthogonality, insofar as they contribute to overall simplicity, are an excellent means to an end
  but as a substitute for simplicity they are very questionable....
• The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
• The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
• The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the readability of assembly language.
• gotcha n. A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environme
  hat tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome....