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Thanks to my isolation, I would do things differently than people subjected to the standard pressures of conformity. I was a free man. Very inspiring words...

• trop 16y ago
  According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL, a quote often attributed to Dijkstra, but actually written about Algol by C. A. R. Hoare in 1973: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors."