The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
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Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.Niklaus Wirth
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
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The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
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Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
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The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques.
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It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
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