C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. — C++

"And youre right: we [the Java designers] were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. Arent you happy?"

"The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All the hoops that the C++ programmer had to jump through in order to use a C-compatible language make no sense anymore -- theyre just a waste of time and effort. Now, Go makes much more sense for the class of problems that C++ was originally intended to solve."

"C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge."

"Today, were at the beginning stages of the next level. Executable UML is the next logical, and perhaps inevitable, evolutionary step in the ever-rising level of abstraction at which programmers express software solutions. Rather than elaborate an analysis product into a design product and then write code, application developers of the future will use tools to translate abstract application constructs into executable entities. Someday soon, the idea of writing an application in Java or C++ will seem as absurd as writing an application in assembler does today."

"In C++ its harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg."

"Now, there was a nigger, who came up with this idea: cout , well thats pretty niggerlicious."