“Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors.”
Tony Hoare
The language in question is ALGOL 60.
Hints on programming-language design (Primary source)
In this paper, Tony Hoare outlines foundational principles for designing programming languages, emphasizing that readability and simplicity are more valuable than clever features or machine optimization.
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“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline? My answer to these questions is simple—it is the art of programming a computer.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intentions of its user.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“Remember that Time is Money.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Time enough always proves little enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary sourceComputer programming Admiration