Miguel de Icaza Quotes

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

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.

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.

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

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.

While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

C++ is a pile of crap.

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

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.