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Shneiderman, B., "Overcoming limitations imposed by current programming languages ", in Jernigan, R., Hamill, B.W., Weintraub, D.M. (ed.), The role of language in problem solving, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1985, pp. 253-275. Google
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262 ;;Quote: could automate the transformation of a conditional statement into a case statement, or splitting an expression into subexpressions
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266 ;;Quote: every action should be reversible; in a car you don't undo the last turn, you turn the other way
273+ ;;Quote: Pascal programmers can easily remember a Pascal program; other programmers can recreate the program in their own language
273 ;;Quote: programmers remember program by their semantics independently of the program's syntax
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