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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded middle.
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
A good system can't have a weak command language.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.