Computer Language Quotes

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

What I can't create I don't understand

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.

I would try and barter a cake for some help with coding. I'm not the best coder. I have some basic HTML but that's about it.

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.