D. Glenn Arthur Jr. (dglenn) wrote, @ 2012-09-09 05:24:00

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"At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler." -- Dennis Ritchie (b. 1941-09-09, d. October 2011), one of the people responsible for a lot of the underpinnings of a whole lot of what we take for granted in modern computing.

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