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ALAN PERLIS
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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.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis There is no such thing as a free variable.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Every reader should ask himself periodically.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis One can only display complex information in the mind.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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