There is no such thing as a free variable.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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