
Re: teaching and learning with LISP/Scheme http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/1c0fd1ffdb5d1b8b (Usenet article).
Usenet articles
[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,
Re: teaching and learning with LISP/Scheme http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/1c0fd1ffdb5d1b8b (Usenet article).
Usenet articles
“C (it's not just a language, it's a grade)”
alt. religion. emacs http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.emacs/msg/991308e21103bb76
“[C has] the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.”
Quoted in Cade Metz, "Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On", http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/ Wired, 13 October 2011.
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,
2000s, 2007
“If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally…”
[7577@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“We need to get out of the old language.”
2000-09, Truth to Power, 2009
“I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?”
“C++ is a badly designed and ugly language. It would be a shame to use it in Emacs.”
Re: Efforts to attract more users? http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/rms" emacs-devel (12 July 2010)
2010s