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Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was the first recipient of the Turing Award.
Alan Jay Perlis was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was the first winner, in 1966, of the A.M. Turing Award, given by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and recognized internationally as the highest honour in computer science.
Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis. 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.
Feb 7, 1990 · Alan J Perlis was born on April 1, 1922 into a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended primary schools in his hometown, starting with the Colfax Public School in his Squirrel Hill neighborhood. In 1933 Perlis enrolled in the public but prestigious Taylor Allderdice High School.
Alan J. Perlis. Born April 1, 1922, Pittsburgh, Pa.; died February 7, 1990, New Haven, Conn.; computer pioneer; leader in establishing computer science as a legitimate discipline; longtime developer of programming languages and programming techniques; author of classic one-liners.
Epigrams on Programming" is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. The epigrams are a series of short, programming-language -neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming, which are widely quoted.
ALAN J. PERLIS, one of the leading figures in the development of modern computer science, died of a heart attack on February 7, 1990, in New Haven, Connecticut, at the age of sixty-seven. Perlis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
