“Epigrams on Programming”是Alan J. Perlis的一篇很有名的文章,其中的内容被广泛引用。
比较著名的有:
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons. (语法的糖衣会导致分号的癌症。)
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis因其在高级编程技术和编译器构造领域的影响而获得1966年的图灵奖。具体介绍请看Wikipedia。
文章的地址如下:http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html