A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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