A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLISIn programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLISAdapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
ALAN PERLISIt is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISAre more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISWe began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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