Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

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 strong for the basic system-type things.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

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

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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 write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

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

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

Any place I hang my head is home.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

C++ is a pile of crap.

Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

And stop pointing that beard at me, it might go off!

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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 is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.