Epigrams in programming

claptrap clap at trap.com
Mon Aug 24 00:10:42 UTC 2020


Hah I stumbled on to this...

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

a few highlights...

3. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

15. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

40. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the 
third one works.

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


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