I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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 man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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