All time Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you…

— Larry Wall

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

— Tom Christiansen

Life is too long to know C++ well.

— Erik Naggum

C++ is a pile of crap.

— Theo de Raadt

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…

— Linus Torvalds

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

— Erik Naggum

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming,…

— Linus Torvalds

Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would…

— Erik Naggum

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

— Alistair Cockburn

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

— Steve Yegge

I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing…

— Erik Naggum