I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
I’m not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I’m not there, they are helping each other and solving each other’s problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
It’s easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
Programmers can be lazy.
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
I think it’s a new feature. Don’t tell anyone it was an accident.
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
I take time to watch anime. I don’t know whether I’m allowed to, but I do it anyway.
You know, I’ve got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
If you’re a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you’re an individual like me, you can’t.
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world – at least up until Haskell came along.
Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
As a linguist, I don’t think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that’s too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.