"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." - Guy Steele I a

"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." - Guy Steele I always wondered which drug Steele was under when he wrote this, seen that Java is actually is less adaptable than C++. Not to say that I prefer C++ over Java, but it is strictly true that there are situations where you can avoid repeating yourself in C++, while you can't in Java, and not the reverse.