[oclug] Quote Wars: was C++: was Zed

[Francis J. A. Pinteric]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:34:37 -0500
"Michael P. Soulier" <michael.soulier at rogers.com> wrote:

> On 12/03/02 Greg Franks did speaketh:
> 
> C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success
>         -- Dennis M. Ritchie

Go get 'em Dennis.

> C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.  C++ makes that
> harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
>                 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

.... and he should know.

>  C++ also supports
> the notion of *friends*: cooperative classes that are permitted to see
> each other's private parts.
>                 -- Grady Booch, "Object Oriented Design with
>                 Applications"

Isn't this the definition of `circle jerk?' Oops. Sorry about that.

> COBOL is for morons.
>                 -- E.W. Dijkstra

That's a self evident proposition.

> Dijkstra probably hates me.
>         -- Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c

Dijkstra doesn't like the fact that the world isn't programming in Algol,
or Pascal, or Modula, Modula-1, Modula-2,  Modula-3 ..., or was that
Niclaus Wirth. Methinks my memory is failing.

> Linux is obsolete
>         -- Andrew Tanenbaum

He and COBOL programmers  have a lot in common.

> Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good
> excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.
>         -- Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum

It's too bad that I missed the whole flame war between the two.

>>>--fja->

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