Assembly Quote by Erik Naggum

“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

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

— Mark Pearce

C is the assembly language of Tcl.

— Karl Lehenbauer

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

— Brian Kernighan

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

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

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

“Unlike most computer languages, C allows the programmer to write directly to memory. Key constructs in C such as structs, pointers and arrays are…

— Wiki Books

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

The original version of C did not have structures. So to make tables of objects, process tables and file tables and this tables and…

— Dennis Ritchie

“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