Constructs Quote by Linus Torvalds

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 pile of crap.

— Theo de Raadt

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

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

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

Life is too long to know C++ well.

— Erik Naggum

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 declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly…

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was…

— Miguel de Icaza