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Programming Language Quotes by Alan Perlis
- When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.
- A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
- A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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 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… — 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