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"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
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"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

"Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague."

"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely."

"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."

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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
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