MIT Technology Review: An Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup

[clayasaurus]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Pragma" <ericanderton at yahoo.removeme.com> wrote in message 
> news:el489h$1f7a$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> Something I ran into that the group might enjoy:
>>
>> From: http://www.techreview.com/InfoTech/17831/
>>
>> "Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the C++ programming language, defends 
>> his legacy and examines what's wrong with most software code."
> 
> Bjarne: "There are just two kinds of languages: the ones everybody complains 
> about and the ones nobody uses."
> 
> And for C++ programmers, those are the same languages.  ;)
> 
> When will Bjarne see that C++ is a festering homonculus of a language from 
> which pours forth a black bile of rot and putrescence?  Okay, maybe I'm 
> being a bit hyperbolistic, but.. 
> 
> 

I like how he talks about C++ being 'expert' friendly and having 
'expert' level features. Is this just a nice way of saying that the 
language is difficult to use? :-P

~ Clay