Concerned Quote by Fernando J. Corbato

“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

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

— Donald Knuth

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and…

— Douglas Crockford

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

— Alan Perlis

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework…

— Hal Abelson

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

— Marvin Minsky

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

— John Carmack

“one thing that separates good programmers from bad programmers is that good programmers are more facile at jumping between layers of abstraction—they can keep…

— Peter Seibel

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare