
“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
[8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
"PL/I as a Tool for System Programming", Datamation, 15 (5), 6 May 1969, pp. 68–76. This has been paraphrased variously by others as Corbató's Law:
Productivity and reliability depend on the length of a program’s text, independent of language level used.
Albert Endres, H. Dieter Rombach, A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering: Empirical Observations, Laws and Theories (2003), ISBN 0321154207, p. 72
The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.
[citation needed]
“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
[8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
"Revenge of the Nerds" http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html May 2002
“The hard part of programming is the same regardless of the language.”
"You broke the Internet. We're making ourselves a GNU one." (August 2013) https://gnunet.org/internetistschuld (around 02:16)
2010s
Context: Programming is programming. If you get good at programming, it doesn't matter which language you learned it in, because you'll be able to do programming in any language. The hard part of programming is the same regardless of the language. And if you have a talent for that, and you learned it here, you can take it over there. Oh, one thing: if you want to get a picture of a programming at its most powerful, you should learn Lisp or Scheme because they are more elegant and powerful than other languages.
“[C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.”
Quoted in Cade Metz, "Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On", http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/ Wired, 13 October 2011.
"PL/I as a Tool for System Programming" http://web.archive.org/web/20080206153039/http://home.nycap.rr.com/pflass/PLI/plisprg.html, Datamation, 15 (5), 6 May 1969, pp. 68–76
“One united people, regardless of race, language or religion.”
Rajaratnam penned the Singapore National Pledge in 1966.
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 80
“…yucky assembly language mucky-muck.”
About language