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You say C++ has "been used to build the most horrible messy codebases in existence". There are two kinds of programming languages: those that have been used to

• vardump 12y ago
  So true.
• NAFV_P 12y ago
  > There are two kinds of programming languages: those that have been used to create horrible messy codebases, and those that haven't been widely used. I think Bjarne's original statement, "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" [0], has been widely paraphrased. [0] http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that