Quote by Yukihiro Matsumoto

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

— Larry Wall

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

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Larry Wall

“Assembly, while extremely powerful, is simply too difficult to program large applications and hard to read or interpret in a logical way. C is…

— Wiki Books

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

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

— Mark Pearce

In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of…

— Isaac Asimov

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

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

We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably…

— Marvin Minsky

There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time…

— Bill Joy