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Alan Jay Perlis è stato un informatico statunitense, pioniere dell'informatica e dei primi linguaggi di programmazione.

Laureato in chimica e matematica rispettivamente nel 1943 e 1949 vinse il primo Premio Turing nel 1966 per la sua influenza nelle tecniche avanzate di programmazione e per la costruzione di numerosi compilatori. Partecipò allo sviluppo del linguaggio ALGOL. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Aprile 1922 – 7. Febbraio 1990  •  Altri nomi Жан де Лабрюйер, Алан Джей Перлис
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Alan Perlis: Frasi in inglese

“19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“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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The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966

“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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The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966

“57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“11: If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“101 Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“116: You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.”

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The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966

“117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.”

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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.”

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Quoted in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Hal Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman (McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 1996).

“16 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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Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.”

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“Computer science is a restless infant and its progress depends as much on shifts in point of view as on the orderly development of our current concepts.”

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The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966

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

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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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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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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

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

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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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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

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

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Epigrams on Programming, 1982

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

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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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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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Quoted in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

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