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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Alan Perlis
Attention, Levels, Language
"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

In English every word can be verbed.

Alan Perlis
Language, English Language, Programming Languages
"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis
Learning, Thinking, Language

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Alan Perlis
Progress, Language, Programming
"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis
Language, Programming, Programming Languages
"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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