It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
-
-
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
ALAN PERLIS -
Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLIS -
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLIS -
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLIS -
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLIS -
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLIS -
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLIS -
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLIS -
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
ALAN PERLIS -
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLIS -
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
ALAN PERLIS -
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
ALAN PERLIS -
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLIS -
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLIS -
In English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLIS