A Quote by Gary Kildall

The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.

Gary Kildall

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Gary Kildall
American - Scientist
May 19, 1942 - July 11, 1994

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

Donald Knuth

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

Fernando J. Corbato

The major change was going from 'Black and White' to 'Fable,' because I was no longer programming, and I had spent most of my time designing through programming, and only working with people I knew well.

Peter Molyneux

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

Brian Kernighan

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Grace Hopper

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had, and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to...my own life.

Newt Gingrich

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.

Dennis Ritchie

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

Dennis Ritchie

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

Henry Spencer

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

Grace Hopper

I spent age 6-12 basically thinking about 'Back to the Future' all the time, so I think it's probably had a pretty huge influence on me and the way I think and write.

Ryan North

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

John Carmack

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

Tim Berners-Lee

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Eric S. Raymond

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

Lisa Ling

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

Edsger Dijkstra

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