Alan Kay Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

  Alan Kay

  Firsts, Language, Programming

• Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

  Alan Kay

  Language, Building, Programming

• The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

  Alan Kay

  Technology, Machines, Language

• The greatest single programming language ever designed

  Alan Kay

  Language, Programming, Programming Languages

• Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

  Alan Kay

  Real, Example, Needs

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

• Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

  Alan Kay

  Beautiful, Merit, Purpose

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

• Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

  Alan Kay

  Believe, Should Have, Class

  Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

• The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

  Alan Kay

  Design, Coins, Done

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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