[quote=Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month]
A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb computer.
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[quote=Fred Brooks - No Silver Bullet]
Many users now operate their own computers day in day out on varied applications without ever writing a program.
Indeed, many of these users can not write  new programs for their machines, but they are nevertheless adept to solving new problems with them.
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