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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by henrik_w on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:09PM (#13553485)
"Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime." - David Leinweber
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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by catnaroek on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:20PM (#13553591)
It's a good kind of frustration, though. It reminds me of Terence Parr's motto:

> “Why program by hand in five days what you can spend five years of your life automating?”

Link: http://parrt.cs.usfca.edu/

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