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ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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