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		mojuba on March 4, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is time an illusion? All Computer Science is either assembly programming or garbage collecting.

divia on March 4, 2009 | [–]

Or, to bastardize Greenspun's Tenth Rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_Tenth_Rule):

All programming is either in Lisp or reimplementing it.

forinti on March 4, 2009 | [–]

All generalizations are bad.

mojuba on March 4, 2009 | [–]

All assumptions about generalizations are generalizations.

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