Programming Language Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.
— Alan Perlis
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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
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
— Alan Kay
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
— Alan Kay
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The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
— Dennis Ritchie
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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
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A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
— Seymour Papert
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
— Alan Perlis
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JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
— Douglas Crockford
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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
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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
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A data structure is just a stupid programming language.
— Bill Gosper
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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
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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
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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
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
— Alan Perlis
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Programming Language Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 21 Programming Language Quotes as follows: