Extensions Quote by Richard Stallman

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the…

— Alan Kay

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

— Mitchell Baker

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

— Neal Stephenson

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the…

— Guido van Rossum

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

— Anonymous

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to…

— Brian Behlendorf

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

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying…

— Garth Greenwell

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

— Niklaus Wirth

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Seymour Papert