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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

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.

I am a programmer.

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.