Erik Naggum Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

  Erik Naggum

  Tools, Done, Rewards

  "Can lisp do what perl does easily?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. March 28, 2000.

• I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.

  Erik Naggum

  Believe, Should Have, Brain

  Re: Checking for Errors Before Run Time (Usenet article), groups.google.com. November 21, 2001.

• You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know the specification, meaning both the explicit and the tacit specification of your language and of your problem. "Hey, it works most of the time" is the very antithesis of a serious programmer, and certain languages can only support code like that.

  Erik Naggum

  Support, Degrees, Hey

  "Implementational Portability". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. August 23, 1999.

• Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

  Erik Naggum

  Thinking, Shapes, Way

  Re: Search & Replace in sequences (Usenet article), groups.google.com. March 20, 2000.

• I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.

  Erik Naggum

  Pain, Cat, Affection

  Re: defmacro question (Usenet article), groups.google.com. July 26, 2000.

• C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

  Erik Naggum

  Liars, Ignorance, People

  "Is CLOS reall OO?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. May 5, 1998.

• C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

  Erik Naggum

  Simple, Design, Language

  Re: teaching and learning with LISP/Scheme (Usenet article), groups.google.com. June 20, 2000.

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