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16s on Sept 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Edward C++Hands

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"

- Bjarne Stroustrup

graue on Sept 20, 2013 [–]

Heard that saying before, but didn't know it was from Stroustrup! That definitely adds to the hilarity.

In that case, let's hope Haskell and Rust move ever more solidly from the second group over to the first :) Always gonna be stuff to complain about. Doesn't excuse C++'s issues.

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