It bears repeating: "[P]rograms must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." -- Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpr

It bears repeating: "[P]rograms must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." -- Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [1], strangely misquoted by Paul Graham [2] [1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node3.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node3.html [2] http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html