Kent Beck (1961) software engineer
Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 15
“(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)”
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