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Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
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Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
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Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
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