Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

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

It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.

One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

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

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.