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3/30 The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A
language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently
invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
-- D. E. Knuth, 1967
        \_ So which language did it turn out to be?
                \_ Visual Basic?
        \_ do people here really not know who don knuth is?  TeX.
          \_ How is TeX a programming language?
            \_ How is TeX not a programming language? -nick
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