3 Sep
2017
3 Sep
'17
1:53 a.m.
On 2017-09-02 11:16 AM, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
And let's not forget Alan Perlis's:
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is
not worth knowing."
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis
Perlis has one for every occasion. Another favourite of mine, and
perhaps relevant to this thread:
"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention
to the irrelevant." - Alan Perlis
-------- Original message --------
From: Toby Thain
Date:02/09/2017 18:00 (GMT+02:00)
To: Dan Cross
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society , quad
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language -
Unearthed!
...
Finally, a favourite quote:
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally
for machines to execute" -- Hal Abelson
https://twitter.com/old_sound/status/903919515884544000
--Toby
- Dan C.