When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISI think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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