Quotes tagged under languages

It would be nice if products and programming languages were designed to have only good parts.

JavaScript is the only language that I’m aware of that people feel they don’t need to learn before they start using it.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

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

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.

PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.