Just a few quotes from Alan Perlis: There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly. Re graphic

Just a few quotes from Alan Perlis: There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly. Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.