“You who speak languages, you are such liars.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
“C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.”
Re: is CLOS reall OO? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/917737b7cc8510e3 (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, C++
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Jamie Zawinski (1968) American programmer
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“[C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.”
Dennis M. Ritchie (1941–2011) American computer scientist
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“If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally…”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[7577@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
Samuel Butler book The Way of All Flesh
Ch. 39 http://books.google.com/books?id=wZAEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+best+liar+is+he+who+makes+the+smallest+amount+of+lying+go+the+longest+way%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage <br class="br">The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author
Source: The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
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