Epigrams in Programming

  1. One man’s constant is another man’s variable.

  2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

  3. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

  4. Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.

  5. If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.