The Best Practice Is Inspired By Theory.

I Think People Who Write Programs Do Have At Least A Glimmer Of Extra Insight Into The Nature Of God... Because Creating A Program Often Means That You Have To Create A Small Universe

Programming Is The Art Of Telling Another Human Being What One Wants The Computer To Do.

The Best Programs Are Written So That Computing Machines Can Perform Them Quickly And So That Human Beings Can Understand Them Clearly. A Programmer Is Ideally An Essayist Who Works With Traditional Aesthetic And Literary Forms As Well As Mathematical Concepts, To Communicate The Way That An Algorithm Works And To Convince A Reader That The Results Will Be Correct.

When Certain Concepts Of Tex Are Introduced Informally, General Rules Will Be Stated; Afterwards You Will Find That The Rules Aren't Strictly True. In General, The Later Chapters Contain More Reliable Information Than The Earlier Ones Do. The Author Feels That This Technique Of Deliberate Lying Will Actually Make It Easier For You To Learn The Ideas. Once You Understand A Simple But False Rule, It Will Not Be Hard To Supplement That Rule With Its Exceptions.

Programs Are Meant To Be Read By Humans And Only Incidentally For Computers To Execute.