“Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.”

—  Bjarne Stroustrup, book The Design and Evolution of C++

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The Design and Evolution of C++, 207]. A later clarification adds, "And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#." Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

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