Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISLike seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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