It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

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

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

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

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer