Advice Quote by Dennis Ritchie

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

— Guido van Rossum

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

— Dennis Ritchie

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

— Charles Petzold

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

— Steve Yegge

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

— Paul Westerberg

We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's…

— Carly Chaikin

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other…

— James Lovelock

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

— Helen DeWitt

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

— Eric S. Raymond

Picking up new languages is fairly easy since it's my passion.

— Sudha Chandran

You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know the specification,…

— Erik Naggum

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

— Grace Paley