Meeting One Quotations

Working Group on Language Design
  • "You always have the choice of making things more complicated, or making things more simple"
    • Dave Ungar, channeling Tony Hoare

  • "Synchronization is the next goto"
    • Dave Ungar

  • "When I was in the corporate world, my manager told me every presentation had to have a chart with two axes, and your system is here" (points to extreme top right of the graph)
    • William Cook

  • Q: Why is there a notion of Primitive Type
  • A: I just decided there would be
    • William "Enso" Cook

  • Protobuffers are JSON for enterprise use
    • Jan-Willem Maessen

  • "We get lots of c**p suggestions"
    • Program Manager for Major Programming Language, Redmond, WA

  • "Types are anti-modular"
    • Gilad Bracha

  • "You cannot read the code without looking at the class definition"
  • "This file is just 44K"
    • Dan Ingalls on Smalltalk-72

  • "There's something fundamental I don't understand
    • Andrew Black

  • "You are a type guy or something, man!"
    • Robby Findler

  • "What happens next is that nothing makes sense any more"
    • Alex Warth

  • "'Underlying Abstract Problems' are for people whose concrete solutions are rubbish"
    • Some Guy from NZ

  • "Semantics doesn't move fast enough for language evolution"
    • Dave Herman

-- JamesNoble - 22 Jun 2011