"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
-Edsger Dijkstra
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"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.“
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