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Line 9: Its lessons are summarized at the end of each section in pithy maxims, such as "Let the machine do the dirty work." One shortcoming of the book for modern readers is that its examples use older programming languages—[[Fortran]] and [[PL/I]]—which are ~~less~~quite ~~than~~different ~~representative of~~from those popular today. (Few of today's popular languages had been invented when this book was written.) A perceptive reader can nevertheless appreciate and learn from most of the book's points, which generally concern stylistic and structural issues which transcend the idiosyncrasies of particular languages. ==References==

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