C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

— Linus Torvalds, Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library. (2007)

Source: https://lore.kernel.org/all/alpine.LFD.0.999.0709070203200.5626@evo.linux-foundation.org/

From a 2007 reply about a patch converting mailinfo code to The Better String Library.

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