(j3.2006) Quotes from Stroustrup

[Van Snyder]

"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 for 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 systems-like component."

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

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