C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.
Linus TorvaldsThe idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
Linus TorvaldsI don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
Linus Torvalds