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I found these two rather odd:

7. Software developers talk a lot about tools, but seldom use them.

30. COBOL is a very bad language, but all the others are so much worse.

Number 7 just doesn't match my experience. But I am an N of 1. I don't know what to make of 30 at all.

And this one made me think the book was rather old (which doesn't mean out of date necessarily):

53. High-order language code can be about 90 percent as efficient as comparable assembler code.

I just wonder what he means by higher-order? In this context, probably C.



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