Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming

"Epigrams on Programming" is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. They are a series of short, programming language neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming, which are widely quoted.

It first appeared in SIGPLAN Notices 17(9), September 1982.

External links

* [http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html List of quotes (Yale)]
* [http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html Full article text]


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