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5 Alan Perlis Quotes on Design

Alan Perlis quotes on design

  1. Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

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  2. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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  3. In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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  4. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

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