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Its lessons are summarized at the end of each section in pithy maxims, such as "Let the machine do the dirty work."
 
Modern readers may find it a shortcoming that its examples use older [[procedural programming languages]] ([[Fortran]] and [[PL/I]]) which are quite different from those popular today. (Few of today's popular languages had been invented when this book was written.) However, many of the book's points that generally concern stylistic and structural issues that transcend the idiosyncrasies of particular languages.
 
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