Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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“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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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