Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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