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emersonrsantos on Jan 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tao of Programming (1987)

> The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler. The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages.

Heh, nothing changed.

deeg on Jan 29, 2019 [–]

You left out the most important line in the whole treatise :)

> But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.

pnw_hazor on Jan 29, 2019 | [–]

Cobol does not look that bad given the mess we are in today.

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