We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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