Bruce Eckel quotes:

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

Life is short (You need Python)

Life's better without braces.

The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All the hoops that the C++ programmer had to jump through in order to use a C-compatible language make no sense anymore - they're just a waste of time and effort. Now, Go makes much more sense for the class of problems that C++ was originally intended to solve.

If it's not tested, it's broken.