You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
ALAN PERLISIt goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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