It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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