A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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