When you have the experience of really being able to be as productive
as possible, then you start to get pissed off at other languages.
You think, "Gee, I've been wasting my time with these other languages."
 - Bruce Eckel (talking about Python vs. C++ and Java)
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I would certainly not want to code business or templating logic
in a static language like C++ or Java. In that space servlets/JSP
are a three legged dog, a sideshow at best. - Bill de hòra
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I believe that C -> C++ -> Java -> Python establishes a nice continuum
of systems-oriented, low-level programming to application-oriented,
high-level programming. - Glyph Lefkowitz
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I believe it was definitely worth moving from C to C++, and from C++ to
Java. [...] For something as advanced as Python is over those languages,
and as different, there will be some hesitation. However, it seems that
in all these cases economics wins out. - Bruce Eckel
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Python is the language which, when used in combination
with appropriate (i.e. sparse) amounts of C, makes C++
completely valueless. - Peter Hansen
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As a language, [C++] requires you to specify in great detail what you
do not know in order to obtain the experience necessary to learn it.
[...] C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go
by guesswork and ignorance. - Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp, May 1998
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The reward for your efforts [in learning Lisp] will be an equivocal
one: you will feel as suffocated programming in C++ as an experienced
C++ programmer would feel programming in Basic.
 - Paul Graham, ANSI Common Lisp, 1995
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The vector<> or set<> implementations of GCC are far superior to those of
VC++ 6, but that memory allocation for GCC 3.4.5 (MinGW version) is far
worse than that of MSCRT / VC++ 6. (And Python still smokes them both.)
 - Tim N. van der Leeuw, August 2006
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I'm not ready to bash on C++ yet. All of this stuff I'm writing, in blogs
and the ADJ, is just practice for when I start bashing C++ in earnest,
and trust me: when I'm finished, one of us (me or C++) won't be here at
Amazon anymore. There's only enough room for one of us in this town.
 - Steve Yegge, September 2004
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C'è troppo software che vuole essere scritto, e a farlo tutto in C++
non ci si arriverà mai: a farlo in Python, con C++ per quel 20% circa
dove serve proprio, riesco a realizzare tanto, tanto di più.
 - Alex Martelli, Febbraio 2006
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Having a job is not unimportant, but if knowing Perl is a requirement
for a particular job, consider another one before taking that one.
This is true even if you know Perl very well. Life is too long to be
an expert at harmful things, including such evilness as C++ and Perl.
 - Erik Naggum on comp.lang.lisp, March 2000