There is no such thing as a free variable.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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