Programming Languages Quotes - Page 11

• XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

  Charles Simonyi

  Napkins, Language, Computer

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• It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.

  Robert D Keppel

  Details, Bugs, Language

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• I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Writing, Ideas, Way

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• A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, Fire, Boss

  Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant (2012). “Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting”, p.26, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.

  Robert W. Floyd

  May, Language, Proposal

  "Assigning Meanings to Programs" by Robert W. Floyd, published in "Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics", Volume 19 (pp. 19-20), 1967.

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• C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

  Linus Torvalds

  Simple, Use, Helping

  Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, September 07, 2007.

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• People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Believe, Simple, People

  Jan. 27, 2004, www.imdb.com.

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