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When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. when we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.
-Edsger Dijkstra
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Edsger Dijkstra
When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. when we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.
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