Claims Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…

— Alan Kay

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers…

— James Gosling

What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread…

— Brian Behlendorf

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

— Bruce Tate

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed…

— Alan Kay

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

— James Gosling

Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.

— James Gosling

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

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

— Dennis Ritchie

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to…

— Brian Behlendorf