You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
ALAN PERLISSome programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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