Donald Ervin Knuth book The Art of Computer Programming
Vol. I, preface (October 1967) to the first edition. (p. x 1973, p. ix 1997)
The Art of Computer Programming (1968–2011)
“C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.”
Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, 2007-09-06, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-09-22 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918, <br class="br">2000s, 2007
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