C++ (was Re: Further PERQ Emulator progress (and a download!))

Fred Cisin wrote: 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