Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 14 November 2010: > > > Just about the whole Murray Hill gang stopped by Cray > (in Chippewa Falls), late 80's, and I remember asking Dennis > what the deal was with "C++"; I remember him dodging the > thing. Whoever-invented-C++ did a convoluted job, i s my > opinion. It might be nice to add classes to C, but that's > about it. > The inventor of C++ is Bjarne Stroustrop. I had the chance opportunity to sit down at a table with him and have a conversation prior to an SD West conference several years ago. He's a nice guy, with a great sense of humor -- but even he admits "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup
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