Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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