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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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This language [LISP] induces humorous arguments among programmers, often being damned and praised for the same feature.
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There is an appreciated substance to the phrase "ALGOL-like" which is often used in arguments about programming, languages and computation. ALGOL appears to be a durable model, and even flourishes under surgery — be it explorative, plastic, or amputative.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Programmers should never be satisfied with languages which permit them to program everything, but to program nothing of interest easily.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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The vision we have of conversational programming takes in much more than rapid turn around time and convenient debugging aids: our most interesting programs are never wrong and never final. [...] What is new is the requirement to make variable in our languages what we had previously taken as fixed. I do not refer to new data classes now, but to variables whose values are programs or parts of programs, syntax or parts of syntax, and regimes of control.
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
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Alan Perlis
Born:
April 1, 1922
Died:
February 7, 1990
(aged 67)
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