> 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

> 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