quotes about programming langs

• There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
  

• It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. (Nathaniel S Borenstein)
  

• [The BLINK tag in HTML] was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it! (Mark Andreessen)
  

• First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. (George Carrette)
  

• If buffer overflows are ever controlled, it won't be due to mere crashes, but due to their making systems vulnerable to hackers. Software crashes due to mere incompetence apparently don't raise any eyebrows, because no one wants to fault the incompetent programmer and his incompetent boss. (Henry Baker)

• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. (Mao Zedong)

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