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The Elements of Programming Style (1974)
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Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
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Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
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