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
mean goal technique
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
men symbiosis machines
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
mean computing
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
mean machines fit
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
mean formal
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
men variables constant
One man's constant is another man's variable.
thinking today firsts
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
life-and-love suffering fool
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
believe science technology
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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.
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.