When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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