It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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