Higher Quote by Dennis Ritchie

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or…

— Dennis Ritchie

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

— Dennis Ritchie

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages…

— Eric S. Raymond

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to…

— Brian Behlendorf

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…

— Alan Kay

“Programmers working with high-level languages achieve better productivity and quality than those working with lower-level languages. Languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk, and Visual…

— Steve McConnell

“Assembly, while extremely powerful, is simply too difficult to program large applications and hard to read or interpret in a logical way. C is…

— Wiki Books

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming,…

— Linus Torvalds

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where…

— Linus Torvalds

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of…

— Verity Stob

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was…

— Miguel de Icaza