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+- [[alan perlis]]
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+- a [[person]].
+	- [[computer scientist]]
+	- first recipient of the turing award
+	- [[push]] [[programming epigrams]] 
+		- [[go]] https://cpsc.yale.edu/epigrams-programming
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