It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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