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• The computing field is always in need of new cliches. -- Alan Perli
• A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perli
• APL is a natural extension of assembler language programming
  ...and is best for educational purposes. -- Alan J. Perli...
• Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
  -- Alan J. Perli...
• One person's constant is another person's variable.
  -- Alan J. Perlis, "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
• You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN.
  -- Alan J. Perli...