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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
-Alan Perlis
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Programmers Are Not To Be Measured By

Alan Perlis
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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