Common Quote by Guido van Rossum

When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java project wont…

— Philip Greenspun

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java…

— Guido van Rossum

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

— Bram Cohen

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is.…

— Richard Stallman

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

— Douglas Crockford

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

— Douglas Crockford

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers…

— James Gosling

I love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.

— Tang Wei

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala

— James Gosling

A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything…

— Raymond Simard

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