A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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 only display complex information in the mind.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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