A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLIS
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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