Connections Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

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

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

“We write programs not because we understand the syntax but to solve a problem”

— Orobor Anderson Ise

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and…

— Douglas Crockford

My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language,…

— Paul Vixie

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

— Seymour Papert

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

— Alan Perlis

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the…

— Edsger Dijkstra