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Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> writes:

> Bonita Montero about C++:
>
>> Sorry, this language is to complicated for your small
>> mind.
>
> An overly complicated language is like an OS that takes all
> the RAM and CPU avaiable, leaving no resources for actual
> work.  C.f. the great Edsger Dijkstra:
>  [...]
>
>   -- Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad
>      idea which could only have originated in California.

I greatly respect the views of Dijkstra, but on this point
he is simply wrong:  the idea of object-oriented programming
did not originate in California.