Guesswork Quote by Erik Naggum

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

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

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

— Tom Christiansen

C++ is a pile of crap.

— Theo de Raadt

Life is too long to know C++ well.

— Erik Naggum

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 my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus…

— Erik Naggum

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of…

— Verity Stob

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

“Pascal (Object Pascal - Free Pascal) for real programmers, Delphi for Nerds... C/C++ for people who always wishes to do things like reinventing the…

— Rejie Roque

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

— Steve Yegge