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Introduction

Introduction

pp. 1-8

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, Tufts University, Massachusetts
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This book is about programming languages—and also about programming. Eachof these things is made better by the other. If you program but you don’t know about programming languages, your code may be longer, uglier, less robust, and harder to debug than it could be. If you know about programming languages but you don’t program, what is your knowledge for? To know a language is good, but to use it well is better.

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