A hard, and perhaps bitter, truth in programming languages is that, historically, elegance counts for nothing and applicability against current problems counts for everything.
I have no way of confirming the authenticity of the following, I read the whiteboard but anyone could have written it. On a whiteboard, in an office associated with Adele Goldberg where Parcplace Systems[1] had moved out, was penned the question; "What is the killer app for SmallTalk?" and below that in a different hand, was written, "and that is how the unholy love child between C++ and UCSD PASCAL wins."
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A hard, and perhaps bitter, truth in programming languages is that, historically, elegance counts for nothing and applicability against current problems counts for everything.
I have no way of confirming the authenticity of the following, I read the whiteboard but anyone could have written it. On a whiteboard, in an office associated with Adele Goldberg where Parcplace Systems[1] had moved out, was penned the question; "What is the killer app for SmallTalk?" and below that in a different hand, was written, "and that is how the unholy love child between C++ and UCSD PASCAL wins."
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scien...