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 保罗·格雷厄姆

编程语言是用来思考程序的,而不是用来表达你已经想到的程序。它应该是一支铅笔,而不是一支钢笔。

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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.

作为一名教师,我对使语言和系统尽可能的简单产生了决定性的影响,这样在我的教学中,我就可以专注于编程的基本问题,而不是语言和符号的细节。

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

编程不是零和游戏。向程序员同行传授一些东西并不会让你失去它。我很乐意分享我所能做的,因为我热爱编程。

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

程序设计是应用数学中最困难的分支之一;较穷的数学家最好还是纯数学家。