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Perlis was a total genius. My favorite is 66. Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick. see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~s

by spot 13y ago

Perlis was a total genius. My favorite is 66. Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick. see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spot/nitrous/top.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spot/nitrous/top.html

brudgers 13y ago
The Official Yale version of Perlis's epigrams: http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html Archive.org's backup of the [behind a paywall] ACM article: http://web.archive.org/web/20080513191245/http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html http://web.archive.org/web/20080513191245/http://www-pu.info...