Programming Language Quotes

21 quotes by 17 authors

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis
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. Once… — Richard Stallman
The greatest single programming language ever designed — Alan Kay
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use.… — Edsger Dijkstra
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. — Alan Perlis
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language. — Douglas Crockford
All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java… — James Gosling
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. — Robert W. Floyd
A data structure is just a stupid programming language. — Bill Gosper
I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to… — Rasmus Lerdorf
A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else.… — Raymond Simard
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a… — Donald Knuth
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. — Bjarne Stroustrup
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate… — Bjarne Stroustrup
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and… — Steve Wozniak
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people… — Larry Ellison

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