C++

   Designed  by  Bjarne  Stroustrup  of AT&T Bell Labs as a successor to
   {C}.  Now  one  of  the  {languages of choice}, although many hackers
   still  grumble  that  it  is  the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada
   (depending  on  generation),  and  a  prime example of {second-system
   effect}. Almost anything that can be done in any language can be done
   in  C++, but it requires a {language lawyer} to know what is and what
   is  not  legal  --  the  design  is  almost too large to hold in even
   hackers'  heads. Much of the {cruft} results from C++'s attempt to be
   backward  compatible  with  C.  Stroustrup  himself  has  said in his
   retrospective  book The Design and Evolution of C++ (p. 207), "Within
   C++,  there  is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get
   out."  [Many  hackers  would  now  add  "Yes, and it's called {Java}"
   --ESR]

   

   Nowadays we say this of C++.

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