You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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