Programming Languages Quotes

Programming Languages Quote of the day

The greatest single programming language ever designed

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

In English every word can be verbed.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

What I can't create I don't understand

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

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

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

My programming language was solder.