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Re:Sizeof(char) is 1 by CoreDumpling on Monday September 06, 2010 @02:04AM (#1666031)
It bears repeating:

"[P]rograms must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." -- Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [1], strangely misquoted by Paul Graham [2]

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node3.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

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Re:Sizeof(char) is 1 by yycom on Monday September 06, 2010 @06:33AM (#1666399)
The best quote IMO is Knuth: programming is the art of telling a human what you want the computer to do.
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