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"Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down."
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Source: Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.
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