8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan Perlis
The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs [...] and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.
Robert W Floyd
A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of.
Paul Graham
To the designer of programming languages, I say: unless you can support the paradigms I use when I program, or at least support my extending your language into one that does support my programming methods, I don't need your shiny new languages. [...] To persuade me of the merit of your language, you must show me how to construct programs in it.
Robert W Floyd
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
Niklaus Wirth
... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About Lisp programming language)
Alan Kay
Perlis, Alan
Perot, Ross
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