C++ is good for the economy, it creates jobs.
Bjarne Stroustrup explains why he created C++.
Quotes
- Being really good at C++ is like being really good at using rocks to sharpen sticks. -- Thant Tessman
- Arguing that Java is better than C++ is like arguing that grasshoppers taste better than tree bark. -- Thant Tessman
- There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation. -- Bertrand Meyer
- C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire. -- Robert Firth
- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay
- C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata and expecting some sort of improvement. -- Drew Olbrich
- C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. -- Bertrand Meyer
- C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
- C++: Simula in wolf's clothing. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
- C++ will do for C what Algol-68 did for Algol. -- David L Jones
- Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp. -- Paul Graham
- I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies. -- Alistair Cockburn
- If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan. -- Andrew Plotkin
- If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you needed one? -- Tom Cargill
- I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay
- It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program -- such as where its bugs are. -- David Keppel
- Java is, in many ways, C++--. -- Michael Feldman
- Java, the best argument for Smalltalk since C++. -- Frank Winkler
- PL/I and Ada started out with all the bloat, were very daunting languages, and got bad reputations (deservedly). C++ has shown that if you slowly bloat up a language over a period of years, people don't seem to mind as much.* -- James Hague
- The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson
- To me C++ seems to be a language that has sacrificed orthogonality and elegance for random expediency. -- Meilir Page-Jones
- Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste. -- Donald E Knuth
- *Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out. * -- Bjarne Stroustrup
- C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360. -- Henry Spencer
- C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.