Guido van Rossum Quotes

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

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.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

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.

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

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.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

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.

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

I am a programmer.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

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.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

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

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

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.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.