Editing Epigrams on Programming

{{Short description|1982 article by Alan Perlis}}
"'''[[Epigram]]s on Programming'''" is an article by [[Alan Perlis]] published in 1982, for [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM's]] [[SIGPLAN]] journal. The epigrams are a series of short, [[programming language|programming-language]]-neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming, which are widely quoted.

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

In epigram #54, Perlis coined the term "[[Turing tarpit]]", which he defined as a programming language where "everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

==References==
* {{Cite journal | last1 = Perlis | first1 = A. J. | doi = 10.1145/947955.1083808 | title = Epigrams on programming | journal = ACM SIGPLAN Notices | publisher = Association for Computing Machinery| location = New York, NY, USA| volume = 17| issue = 9| pages = 7&ndash;13 | date=September 1982 | url = http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/19990117034445/http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html| archivedate = January 17, 1999| doi-access = free}}

==External links==
* [https://cpsc.yale.edu/epigrams-programming List of quotes (Yale)]
* [https://iiif.library.cmu.edu/file/Simon_box00075_fld05959_bdl0003_doc0002/Simon_box00075_fld05959_bdl0003_doc0002.pdf Full article text -- (including so-called "meta epigrams", numbers 122-130)]

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[[Category:Association for Computing Machinery]]

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