Attention Quote by Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

— Anonymous

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework…

— Hal Abelson

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

— John Carmack

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more…

— Fernando J. Corbato

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

“Programmers working with high-level languages achieve better productivity and quality than those working with lower-level languages. Languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk, and Visual…

— Steve McConnell

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is.…

— Richard Stallman