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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
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Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parentheses in the wrong place.
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It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...
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And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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