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Quote of the day

From the mod_ssl configure script:

Programming in Bourne-Shell is a higher form of masochism.

No known attribution.
This still doesn’t explain why I enjoy shell scripting so much.

A Thing of Beauty

There’s an interesting article, A thing of beauty in the latest New Scientist. It has deep resonance with me as a programmer. It reminds me of a quote I once read.

Code should be written for humans to read, and only incidentally for computers to execute. —Introduction to SICP

Sorry, I forget the attribution. [...]