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How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?

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How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?- Short, tongue-in-cheek essay by Edsger Dijkstra on old problems in programming, many of which are embarrassingly still with us: criticizes APL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, natural language programming.

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