Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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