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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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 reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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