[jeorgun]

"Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++."

In what sense was C++ designed for other people? IIRC Stroustrup came up with it to use on his own research projects.

[peterashford]

C++ is the classic design-by-committee language. However it started it, it's far from one person's design now and hasn't been for decades.