A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLISIn programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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