Appreciate Quote by Richard Stallman

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

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most…

— Eric S. Raymond

The greatest single programming language ever designed

— Alan Kay

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

— Larry Wall

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

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

My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am…

— Richard Stallman

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

— Neal Stephenson

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

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

— Philip Greenspun

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

— Bram Cohen

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

— Anonymous