On Sunday, April 5th, 2026 at 11:22 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Erik Naggum hated Perl with a passion, and considered Perl to be a problem, > not a problem solver.[10] He disliked C++, though not as much as he hated > Perl, but he generally thought that C++ was too difficult to understand to > such a degree that only about 5 people on the planet truly understood it and > hence it was of little value for humanity." > > And it only took the rest of the programming community 30 years to finally > come on board with that idea and create the Rust language. > Yes, because Rust is definitely the first and only attempt to make a simpler alternative to C++. Also that "quote" on his wikipedia page is not properly cited, unlike may of the other Erik Naggum statements that they did properly quote and cite. That particular wikipedia paragraph reads as conjecture on the part of the writer and probably violates wikipedia's own standards when it comes to providing factually correct information. Grain of salt, Ted. You know, in the off chance the ghost of toxic coders past comes back and starts flaming Rust. ;) -Ben
