Niklaus Wirth Quotes

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

I was a programmer.

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.

I worked as a programmer for 16 years.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was, like, 11 and I wrote programs and BASIC on that, like I think a lot of people did, but I have no idea how to program in the current languages at all.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

I think everyone should learn how to code.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.