Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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