Miguel de Icaza Quotes

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.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

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

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

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

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

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.

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.

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

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

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

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

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.

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.

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.

In this beginner-friendly book, called 'Learn to Program with Minecraft,' you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.