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
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“One such usage is the turtle module (which is also part of the standard library). To quote the Python docs: Turtle graphics… — Paul Barry 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people -… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image