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pageman on Dec 21, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java in College: "You might as well be teaching Ch...

"To them, the C compiler was just magic."

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

it must have been too advanced for them? :)

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