There is no such thing as a free variable.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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