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From: felkl@aste16.Berkeley.EDU (Feliks Kluzniak)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Review of "The Craft of Prolog"
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.183637.2783@ida.liu.se>
Date: 7 Feb 91 18:36:37 GMT
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In article <4710@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard
A. O'Keefe) writes:
|> In article <5771@swi.swi.psy.uva.nl>, anjo@swi.psy.uva.nl (Anjo
Anjewierden) writes:
|> > Some of the chapters are very much in Dijkstra's
|> > letters to myself (because no one understands it anyway) style.
|> 
|> Perceptive!  Dijkstra's writings have influenced me a lot.

To this I would like to add the following quotation ("The Craft of
Prolog", p.333):

"Given that we usually have to put in a lot of time stepping through a
program when we are debugging it...."

Sapienti sat.
-- F. K.