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• However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

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• I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

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• A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you’ve already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

  Paul Graham

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• I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

  Francis Ford Coppola

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• We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too… obviously… a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

  Skitch Henderson

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• If you think about computer programming, it’s as antisocial as it gets.

  Shawn Fanning

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• I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.

  Sara Gilbert

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• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  Ted Koppel

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• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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• It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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• Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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• 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.

  Niklaus Emil Wirth

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• I don’t have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn’t do my job.

  Roger Ailes

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• Programming is usually taught by examples.

  Niklaus Emil Wirth

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• Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.

  John D. Carmack

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• The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other.

  John D. Carmack

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• But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

  Niklaus Emil Wirth

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• Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

  Niklaus Emil Wirth

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• Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

  Niklaus Emil Wirth

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