- One man's constant is another man's variable.
- Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
- Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
- Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
- If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
- Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
- It is easier to write an..