5 ms·The concept was specifically to include the best ideas, not everythingby mikkelam 8y agoThe concept was specifically to include the best ideas, not everythingwilltim 8y agoNo the concept was to drag the C++ programmers halfway towards the best ideas :)peatmoss 8y agoFor those missing the reference, this is a play on a quote attributed to Guy Steele: > "We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."