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> 30. In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly. — AJP > 31. Simplicity does not precede
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> 30. In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly. — AJP
> 31. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — AJP
> "[Algol 60] 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." —CARH
as to universal languages, cf http://cdent.org/examples/hello-world/index.html http://cdent.org/examples/hello-world/index.html