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“There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it.”

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Bill Joy
Bill Joy

Bill Joy is a renowned computer scientist, born on November 8, 1954. He has had a significant impact in the field of computer science, particularly in operating systems and programming languages. Joy was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and a co-creator of the Java programming language. more

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