Bugs Quote by Robert D Keppel

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program…

— Jerry Pournelle

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

“debugger, a tool that will preserve your C source code after compilation and enable you to do such things as step through it manually,…

— Wiki Books

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

C++ is a pile of crap.

— Theo de Raadt

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

— Alistair Cockburn

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— 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

“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”

— Philip Greenspun

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

— Edsger Dijkstra