“In C++, reinvention is its own reward.”

—  Erik Naggum

Re: wretched C++ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/178f262397afdbb5 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, C++

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Norwegian computer programmer 1965–2009

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