Constructs Quote by Bertrand Meyer

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages…

— Eric S. Raymond

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

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose…

— Dennis Ritchie

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

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not…

— Erik Naggum

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to…

— Brian Behlendorf

“We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of…

— Paul Graham

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express…

— Erik Naggum

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

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

— Mark Pearce

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

— Larry Wall