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<p>Merged content to <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Alan_Perlis#Epigrams_on_Programming" title="Alan Perlis">Alan Perlis#Epigrams on Programming</a>, redirecting Merged content from <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Epigrams_on_Programming" class="mw-redirect" title="Epigrams on Programming">Epigrams on Programming</a> as a result of an <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=WP:AfD&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="WP:AfD (page does not exist)">Articles for deletion</a> discussion. Please see the former page&#039;s history for attribution. The discussion in which consensus to merge was reached is in the first banner at the top this article&#039;s talk page. I didn&#039;t add any additional content, but the relevant section may need to be cleaned up. (<a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=User:SD0001/easy-merge&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:SD0001/easy-merge (page does not exist)">easy-merge</a>)</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Previous revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:26, 15 September 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Short description|1982 article by </del>Alan Perlis<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">#REDIRECT [[</ins>Alan Perlis<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">#Epigrams </ins>on Programming]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"'''[[Epigram]]s </del>on Programming<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''" 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</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming, which are widely quoted.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It first appeared in ''SIGPLAN Notices'' 17(9), September 1982.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">R from merge</ins>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">R to section</ins>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">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."</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==References==</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* </del>{{<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">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&amp;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</del>}}</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==External links==</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [https://cpsc.yale.edu/epigrams-programming List of quotes (Yale)]</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [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)]</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Magazine articles]]</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Association for Computing Machinery]]</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">compu-sci-stub</del>}}</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Adding local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_description" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Short description">short description</a>: &quot;1982 article by Alan Perlis&quot;, overriding Wikidata description &quot;scientific article&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1982 article by Alan Perlis}}<br /> &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;[[Epigram]]s on Programming&#039;&#039;&#039;&quot; is an article by [[Alan Perlis]] published in 1982, for [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM&#039;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.<br /> <br /> It first appeared in &#039;&#039;SIGPLAN Notices&#039;&#039; 17(9), September 1982.<br /> <br /> In epigram #54, Perlis coined the term &quot;[[Turing tarpit]]&quot;, which he defined as a programming language where &quot;everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.&quot;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> * {{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&amp;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}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [https://cpsc.yale.edu/epigrams-programming List of quotes (Yale)]<br /> * [https://iiif.library.cmu.edu/file/Simon_box00075_fld05959_bdl0003_doc0002/Simon_box00075_fld05959_bdl0003_doc0002.pdf Full article text -- (including so-called &quot;meta epigrams&quot;, numbers 122-130)]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Magazine articles]]<br /> [[Category:Association for Computing Machinery]]<br /> <br /> {{compu-sci-stub}}</div>

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