Ifs Quote by James Gosling

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

— Bruce Tate

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed…

— Alan Kay

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— James Gosling

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of…

— August Strindberg

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…

— Alan Kay

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

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