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• Quote #655 Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies, because it suits the way they write software.
  At big companies, software tends to be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of mediocre programmers....
• Quote #579 Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to have a language designed by a committee.
  Committees yield bad design. But I think the worst danger of committees is that they interfere with redesign....
• So we get to my point. Surely people around here read things that aren't on the *Officially Sanctioned Cyberpunk Reading List*.
  Surely we don't (any of us) really believe that there is some big, deep political and philosophical message in all this, do we?...
• Quote #606 The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion.
  What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code....
• Dear Emily: I'm still confused as to what groups articles should be posted to.
  How about an example? -- Still Confused Dear Still...
• Dear Emily: How can I choose what groups to post in?
  -- Confused Dear Confused: Pick as many as you can, so that you get the widest audience....
• I think the Europeans are hostile toward the English because the English have some irritating habits--the habit, for instance, of ending sentences with questions that sound like reprimand
  You say it's difficult for you to tell because you haven't read the survey?...
• Umm, square root of two? Ouch!
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...