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“The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.”

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Joshua Bloch is a renowned software engineer known for his contributions to the Java programming language and library design. Born on August 28, 1961, he served as the Chief Architect of the Java Platform at Sun Microsystems and later as the architect for the Java libraries at Google. Throughout his career, Bloch has had a significant impact on the development of the Java programming language. more

“What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.”

Ifs Names Hours Expression Easier Program Method Sentences Code Variables

Author:Joshua Bloch

“I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.”

Needs Country Today Poor Our Lives Harder Remains Moved Vietnam Poor Countries

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.”

Ifs Want Years War Depends Tea Invites Making Peace

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“I only follow one party: the Vietnamese Party.”

Party Pumpkin Vietnamese

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?”

People Ifs Kind Sides Revolution Colonialism

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.”

Want Has Beens Government Moving Decision Relationship Objects Wounds Heal Moving Forward Vietnam Veteran Keep Moving Forward Vietnamese Our Veterans Positive Relationship

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!”

Sacrifice Slavery

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps develop your awareness of the different properties, styles, and effects of writing is good for you. It helps you become a better reader, more sensitive to nuance, and a better writer, more sensitive to audience. Texting language is no different from other innovative forms of written expression that have emerged in the past. It is a type of language whose communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be appreciated.”

Source: List of cartoons ;The Hype About Texting ;How Weird is Texting? ;What is Distinctive About it? ;Why do They do it? ;Who Texts? ;What do They Text About? ;How do Other Languages do it? ;Why all the Fuss? ;Glossary ;Appendix ;Index

“Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but no day-by-day, blow-by-blow examples. I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form. It's what linguists do. You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.”

Years Children Kids Form Used Literature Taken Records Example Shapes Evidence Down And Blow Data My Children Linguists

Author:David Crystal

“The internet is an amazing medium for languages.”

Language Internet Mediums

Author:David Crystal

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