"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it."
- Stuart Russel & Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligence. A Modern Approach. Second Edition, 2003 p. 82.
"In some very early implementations of Basic, the manual actually suggested removing comments from a program in order to improve its performance."
- Michael L. Scott. Programming Language Pragmatics. Second Edition, 2006, p. 16.
~ The first implementations were interpreters, but it's still a bit of a controversial thing to put into a manual.
"Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
- Donald E. Knuth. Literate programming. The Computer Journal, 27(2):97–111, May 1984.
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