Guido van Rossum Quotes

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

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.

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.

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.

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

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.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

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.

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

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.

Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

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

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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.

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

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.