A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
“Programming language is to the computer ; speaking in tongue is to God” — Adewale Osunsakin Copy Share Image
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.” — Mike Loukides Copy Share Image
Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“But, of course, the point of a programming language is that you don't just read it; you write it, too. You make… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one,… — Raymond Simard Copy Share Image
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
“You will notice that Prolog has some similarities to a functional programming language such as Hugs.A functional program consists of a sequence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“PHP as an object oriented programming language should be judged by how well it does the job, not on a preconceived notion… — Peter Lavin Copy Share Image
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients,… — Keith R.A. DeCandido Copy Share Image
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer. — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language. — Charles Simonyi Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no… — Rasmus Lerdorf Copy Share Image
Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
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