You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
ALAN PERLISAny noun can be verbed.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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There is no such thing as a free 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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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