Zitat des Tages von Alan Perlis:
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
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.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
