Write a paper promising salvation, make it a 'structured' something or a 'virtual' something, or 'abstract', 'distributed' or 'higher-order' or 'applicative' and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, My hopes of computing science (1979)

Source: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD07xx/EWD709.html

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