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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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