Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

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

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

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.

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

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

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

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

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

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

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

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.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

We’re no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you’ll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really knew what they were doing.