İlk programlama dillerinden ALGOL‘ün yaratıcısı ve ilk ACM Turing ödülünün sahibi Alan J. Perlis’in (1922 - 1990) epigramları. Şunlar özellikle çok iyi :

• One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
• If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
• Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
• 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.
• It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
• Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.

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