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Tex Has Found At Least One Bug In Every Pascal Compiler It's Been Run On, I Think, And At Least Two In Every C Compiler
-Donald Knuth
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Tex Has Found At Least One Bug
Donald Knuth
Tex Has Found At Least One Bug In Every Pascal Compiler It's Been Run On, I Think, And At Least Two In Every C Compiler
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