Assembly Quote by Mark Pearce

“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

C is the assembly language of Tcl.

— Karl Lehenbauer

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not…

— Erik Naggum

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

— Larry Wall

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

— Peter Norvig

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

— Larry Wall

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

— Charles Petzold

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

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

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

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

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