It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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