Cobol Quote by Bertrand Meyer Download Open image “C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good” — Bertrand Meyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cobol Currents Language Looks
COBOL unlike other languages is the most modern, because.... it has a lot of PICTURES! — Lkk Copy Share Image
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of… — Verity Stob 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 GUI programming,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. — David LaChapelle 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 language is.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing… — Erik Naggum 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 in C… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
COBOL unlike other languages is the most modern, because.... it has a lot of PICTURES! — Lkk Copy Share Image