With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.