In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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