e source of the exhilaration associated with computer programming is the continual unfoldingwithin the mind and on the computer of mechanisms expressed as programs and the explosion of perception they generate. If art interpretsour dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than whenyou were first led up to it, that you can make it more.”—Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990)A programming language is low levelwhen its programs require attention tothe irrelevant.In the long run every program becomes rococo — then rubble.
