I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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