Programming Quote by Wiki Books

“minimum software requirements to program in C is a text editor, as opposed to a word processor. A plain text Notepad Editor can be…

— Wiki Books

“Over the past decade Stallman created a powerful editing program called Gnu-Emacs. But Gnu’s much more than just a text editor. It’s easy to…

— Clifford Stoll

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

— Neal Stephenson

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

— Richard Stallman

“VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy—it hasn’t the versatility of Gnu-Emacs,…

— Clifford Stoll

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was…

— Miguel de Icaza

Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It…

— James Gosling

“many programmers prefer and recommend using an Integrated development environment (IDE) instead of a text editor.”

— Wiki Books

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

— Wang Leehom

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter…

— Donald Knuth

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

— Dee Brown