A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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