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.

  • -- Paul Graham 保罗·格雷厄姆

编程语言是用来思考程序的,而不是用来表达你已经想到的程序。它应该是一支铅笔,而不是一支钢笔。

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

作为一名教师,我对使语言和系统尽可能的简单产生了决定性的影响,这样在我的教学中,我就可以专注于编程的基本问题,而不是语言和符号的细节。

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

成为一名优秀的程序员总是有帮助的。喜欢电脑,能够想到人们想用电脑做的事情是很重要的。

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

我是一个作曲家、圆号演奏家和电脑程序员。

Programming is usually taught by examples.

编程通常是通过例子来教的。