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"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time" --Alan Perlis
by firethief 9y ago
"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time" --Alan Perlis
- mac01021 9y agoThis was the last straw. After many years of seeing Alan Perlis's Oscar-Wilde-style epigrams about programming show up everywhere, I finally looked him up. It turns out he published all those epigrams together in a single document in 1982: http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html