Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.