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In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

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.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

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.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.