Quotes from Stroustrup ("C++ Designer")

 

 

"More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad" than in languages proclaimed "wonderful" - much more."

 

"It would be nice if every kind of numeric software could be written in C++ without loss of efficiency, but unless something can be found that achieves this without compromising the C++ type system it may be preferable to rely on FORTRAN…"

 

"FORTRAN is harder to compete with.  It has a dedicated following who… care little fro programming languages or the finer points of computer science.  They simply want to get their work done."

 

"I see C++ as a language for scientific computation and would like to support such work better than what is currently provided.  The real question is not "if?" but "how?""

 

"C++ was designed to be a systems programming language and a language for applications that had a large system-like component."

 

"I am not among those who think that a single language should be all things to all people."