“I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) providing roughly what C++ does.”
[Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages, https://books.google.com/books?id=yB1WwURwBUQC&pg=PA14, 21 March 2009, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 978-0-596-55550-4, 14]
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Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ 1950Related quotes
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[7577@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
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The Descent of Man (1871)
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Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 2 : Butterflies and Superstrings, p. 18
Context: Imagine, if you can, four things that have very different sizes. First, the entire universe. Second, the planet Earth. Third, the nucleus of an atom. Fourth, a superstring. The step in size from each of these things to the next is roughly the same... twenty powers of ten....
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alt. religion. emacs http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.emacs/msg/991308e21103bb76