11. You Know C, So C++ is Easy!
C++ will do for C what Algol-68 did for Algol.1
—David L. Jones
1. Algol-68 was a monster-sized language that built on the small and successful Algol-60. It was hard to understand (it had a formal specification written in denotational semantics), hard to implement, and hard to use. But it was “very powerful” or so everyone said. Algol-68 effectively killed Algol-60 by replacing it, before self-destructing in a wave of impracticality. Some people see parallels between the two Algols and the two C’s.
If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one?
—Tom Cargill, C++ Journal, Fall 1990
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