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    FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
    PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
    It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
    The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
    APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

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In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: read more

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It is useless to send armies against ideas.

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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour read more

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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

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The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more

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Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running read more

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

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We're all living in a chemical soup.

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

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