Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

C++ is an insult to the human brain