Ideas Quote by Rasmus Lerdorf

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

— 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

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

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

— Seymour Papert

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

— Dennis Ritchie

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

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

— Hisham Matar

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

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

— Alan Perlis

My programming language was solder.

— Terry Pratchett

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

“We write programs not because we understand the syntax but to solve a problem”

— Orobor Anderson Ise