Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis
Alan Jay Perliswas an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 April 1922
CountryUnited States of America
american-scientist data everywhere hiding passed perfect stark string structure vehicle
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
control language period year
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language - only we can't control when the 5 year period will begin.
concept include seek
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
believe science technology
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
trust data function
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
attention levels language
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
technology thinking people
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
writing two errors
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
life-and-love suffering fool
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
technology bird worms
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
simplicity simple-life doe
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
thinking today firsts
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.