Computer Quote by Hal Abelson

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

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

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

— Seymour Papert

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

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

Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort…

— Donald A. Norman

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

— Fred Brooks

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its…

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

— Larry Wall

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

— Marvin Minsky