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Re:"My current theory is that programming is quite literally... by dpapathanasiou on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @09:13AM (#2632937)
That reminded of this quote (I forget who said it):

"Programs are written for humans to read, not for machines to execute"

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Re:"My current theory is that programming is quite literally... by tree_of_item on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @09:26AM (#2632984)
That was at the beginning of SICP.
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