If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISOnce you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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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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