Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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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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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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