If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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