#programming

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children

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

— Alan Perlis

#every #languages #our #programming #were

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#change #languages #manage #programming #progress

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#become #central #continue #decline #kind

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming. ↗

— Jim Henson

#children #days #ended #felt #kind

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#complex #daily #daily work #distributed #example

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#belief #details #easier #either #harder

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#come #environment #extremely #focus #going

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#find #i #just #just one #languages