When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLIS
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Alan PerlisAlan Perlis You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis In English every word can be verbed.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Dealing with failure is easy.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Any noun can be verbed.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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