Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis 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
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. — Niklaus Wirth 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
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
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity,… — Randall E. Stross Copy Share Image
For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
“Thinking back to old-time computer programming in the days before programming languages supported internationalization, we used to have to “internationalize” our code.… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
“In programming languages, as Erann Gat has pointed out, what "industry best practice" actually gets you is not the best, but merely… — Anonymous 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
It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future.… — Charles H. Moore Copy Share Image
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being… — John Backus Copy Share Image
The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the… — Henry Petroski 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
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to… — Darl McBride 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
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