You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
ALAN PERLISWhen someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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