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No no no, I'm not defining all these annoyingly similar-but-unique formats. Other people defined them. If it were up to me, they'd all be of the form ``((name0 . value0) (name1 . value1))'' so I could use Lisp's read function to parse them without having to write any code myself.

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... here.²

Tim Kientzle once said to me something like ``Copy-&-paste is the fundamental form of code re-use''.

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...URL³

In my strongly held but humorous opinion, URL should be pronounced like ``earl''. Otherwise FORTRAN must be pronounced ``eff oh are tee are ay in'' & BASIC must be pronounced ``bee ay ess eye see''.

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... program.⁴

I have encountered two kinds of programmers in my career: Those who implicitly agree with this idea or who come to agree with it after writing a few test programs of their own, & whose who will never, ever understand it, much less agree with it.

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