Bjarne Stroustrup saw this danger years ago, and invented C++ to combat it. The ISO C++ Committee has bravely carried on his vision. https://www-users.cs.york.

Bjarne Stroustrup saw this danger years ago, and invented C++ to combat it. The ISO C++ Committee has bravely carried on his vision. https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/cpp.htm https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/cpp.htm > Stroustrup: 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?