Programming In Basic Causes Brain

The Prisoner Falls In Love With His Chains.

Simplicity And Elegance Are Unpopular Because They Require Hard Work And Discipline To Achieve And Education To Be Appreciated.

The Use Of Cobol Cripples The Mind; Its Teaching Should, Therefore, Be Regarded As A Criminal Offense.

John Von Neumann Draws Attention To What Seemed To Him A Contrast. He Remarked That For Simple Mechanisms, It Is Often Easier To Describe How They Work Than What They Do, While For More Complicated Mechanisms, It Is Usually The Other Way Around.

So-called "natural Language" Is Wonderful For The Purposes It Was Created For, Such As To Be Rude In, To Tell Jokes In, To Cheat Or To Make Love In (and Theorists Of Literary Criticism Can Even Be Content-free In It), But It Is Hopelessly Inadequate When We Have To Deal Unambiguously With Situations Of Great Intricacy, Situations Which Unavoidably Arise In Such Activities As Legislation, Arbitration, Mathematics Or Programming.