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.
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
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.
I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
