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 //Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.// --Brian Kernighan //Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.// --Brian Kernighan
  
-//There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiences. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.// --C.A.R. Hoare (The emperor's old clothes - 1981)+//There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are __obviously__ no deficiences and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no __obvious__ deficiencies.// --C.A.R. Hoare (The emperor's old clothes - 1981)
  
 //SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.// --Philip Greenspun //SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.// --Philip Greenspun