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annmarieking8 When he meets the Pope, the Pope kisses his ring
profsimonlangworth38 Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
almost 2 years ago •
vincefranecki81 Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
almost 2 years ago •
nathanielterry37 It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.
almost 2 years ago •
leocronin59 Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
almost 2 years ago •
herbvon13 Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.
almost 2 years ago •
dawnetreutel87 Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
almost 2 years ago •
annmarieking8 Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
almost 2 years ago •
mrsmaclindgren9 Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
almost 2 years ago •
profsimonlangworth38 It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.
almost 2 years ago •