Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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