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When 'Programmer' Wasn't a Profession

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β€œIn 1957, I married, and Dutch marriage rites require you to state your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession.β€œ

  • E W Dijkstra

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