There is no such thing as a free variable.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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