Programming Languages Quotes

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The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of… — Erik Naggum
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we… — Edsger Dijkstra
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
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The… — David Gelernter
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis
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
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we… — Bertrand Meyer
My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages,… — Anders Hejlsberg
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
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. — Alan Perlis
A data structure is just a stupid programming language. — Bill Gosper
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution… — Edsger Dijkstra
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. — Miguel de Icaza
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

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