A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLISIt is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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