Design Quote by Robert W. Floyd

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

— Seymour Papert

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

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

— Larry Wall

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

— Alan Perlis

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

— Marvin Minsky

Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort…

— Donald A. Norman

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 impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

“Remember that code is really the language in which we ultimately express the requirements. We may create languages that are closer to the requirements.…

— Robert C. Martin

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

— Larry Wall