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This book is excellent. If I've had read it when I were a junior developer, I'd have advanced years of my understanding of software.

Ousterhout is the inventor of one the most important unsung principle of software development: the Ousterhout's Dichotomy.

"Ousterhout's Dichotomy, proposed by John Ousterhout as a software development paradigm, asserts that the world of application development is divided into two languages: a compiled language focusing on disk access and efficiency such as C, and a higher-level, typeless or loosely-typed scripting language with a simple, basic syntax."

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Ousterhout%27s+Dichotomy

All your pandas, numpy, R belong to his



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