Computer language Quote by Dennis Ritchie Download Open image “The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.” — Dennis Ritchie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer language Computer programming Language Learning Program Programming Programming Language Programming languages Way Writing
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was, like, 11… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9 — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. — Darwin D. Martin Copy Share Image
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper… — Cay S. Horstmann Copy Share Image
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous,… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ...… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
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