RapportFlykt #2

C++ är skit helt enkelt, en bluff!

"Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I
thought of this little scheme, which would redress the
balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen,
if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to
learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with
programmers? Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10,
you know, X windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics
system, that it only just ran on those Sun 3/60 things..
They had all the ingredients for what I wanted. A really
ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and
pseudo-OO structure. Even now, nobody writes raw X-windows
code. Motif is the only way to go if you want to retain
your sanity."

Från I did it for you all

Hade varit kul att vara med i svängen när detta Hoax var aktuellt...
Sanningen kom senare ut och kan läsas här Stroustrup Publications. Leta efter "S. Hamilton:The Real Stroustrup Interview. IEEE Computer Magazine, June 1998".