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Linus Torvalds

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C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.
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Torvalds, Linus (2007-09-07). Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.

 
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