Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISSome programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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