"BCPL makes C look like a very high-level language and provides absolutely no type checking or run-time support."
B. Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, 1994 "C++ was designed to be used in a rather traditional compilation and run-time environment, the C programming environment on the UNIX system. Facilities such as exception handling or concurrent programming that require nontrivial loader and run-time support are not included in C++. Consequently, a C++ implementation can be very easily ported." B. Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 1986 "Except for the new, delete, typeid, dynamic_cast, and throw operators and the try-block, individual C++ expressions and statements need no run-time support." B. Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 3rd ed., 2000 Nick
