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Ada
Don't force it. Use a bigger hammer.
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[top]C One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
C++ ...worse is better...
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Cognitive Science Only a very small fraction of our DNA does anything; the rest is all comments and ifdefs.
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FORTRAN Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Cavemen drew flowcharts, and look how much good it did them.
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GNU and Open Source You've got be careful about getting locked into open systems.
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HTML Style sheets, Dynamic html, etc.
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Linguistics "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know" -- Abraham Lincoln speaking about ?
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LISP ...it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken...
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Networking, etc. ``The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.'' Albert Einstein
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Neural Networks, Genetic Programming, etc.
Object-Oriented Programming/Design
[top]Perl DWIM - Do What I Meant. It describes Perl's sometimes uncanny ability to do what you actually meant to do rather than what you thought you meant to tell Perl to think that you meant to tell it to do. Or something like that.
Prolog It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your AI programs are?
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[top]Simulation ``Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.'' Albert Szent-Gyorgi
System Analysis ``The reason that God was able to create the world in seven days is that he didn't have to worry about the installed base.'' Enzo Torresi
Unix ``From an operating system research point of view, Unix is -- if not dead -- certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.'' Dennis Ritchie, Usenix keynote speech Summer 1990
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X11 ``If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?'' Will Rogers
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