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Alan Perlis Quotes: Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
         

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


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



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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

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



A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.



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