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    ACM Turing Lecture 1972: The Humble Programmer programming cs.utexas.edu
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      rogersm avatar rogersm 7 years ago | link

      It has already taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.

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      chaica avatar chaica 7 years ago | link

      is this an old text? This fact should be mentioned in the title, shouldn’t it ?

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        sin avatar sin 7 years ago | link

        I’ve amended the title to include the date.