4 Jul
2008
4 Jul
'08
2:55 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
"In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the
foot, but when you do, you
blow off your whole leg." Bjarne Stroustrup.
With all due respect to Mr. Stroustrup, it is NOT any harder to shoot
yourself in the foot with C++ than with C. It has all the problems of C
plus a whole lot of new ones.
Eric
C++ is a fairytale language. Unfortunately, the fairytale is not The
Goose that laid the Golden Eggs, but rather The Emperor has no Clothes.
-- Peter van der Linden
C++ is already too large and complicated for our taste.
-- X3J16, (SIGPLAN notices, June 1992)
C++ will do for C what Algol-68 did for Algol.
-- David L. Jones
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 Cargin
It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for
concealing the trivial details of a program - such as where its bugs
are.
-- David Keppel
When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.
-- Steve Haflich
C++ has it's place in the history of programming languages. Just as
Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
-- Robert Firth
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
Being really good at C++ is like being really good at using rocks to
sharpen sticks.
-- Thant Tessman
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
To me C++ seems to be a language that has sacrificed orthogonality and
elegance for random expediency.
-- Meilir Page-Jones
I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of
your project and do so without apologies.
-- Alistair Cockburn
C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good.
-- Bertrand Meyer
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a
lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much
easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out,
that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
-- Linus Torvalds