Алан Перлис: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 2)

“79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“Programmers should never be satisfied with languages which permit them to program everything, but to program nothing of interest easily.”

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Alan Perlis

The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966

“59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“1: One man's constant is another man's variable.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“39: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“95: Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“41: Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“42: You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“This language [LISP] induces humorous arguments among programmers, often being damned and praised for the same feature.”

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Alan Perlis

The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966

“We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”

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Alan Perlis

Quoted in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.