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Encyclopedia > Epigrams In Programming

Epigrams In Programming was the title of an article written by Alan Perlis in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. They are a series of short, programming language neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming.


It first appeared in SIGPLAN Notices 17(9), September 1982. It is reproduced here (http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/~mw263/Perlis_Epigrams.html) with permission of the copyright holder, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).


External link

  • text of the article (http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/~mw263/Perlis_Epigrams.html)
  • Another link to same text (http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html)

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