I like this quote: I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. I thought this was from Mark Twain, but originally seems to be from Blaise Pascal in Lettres Provinciales. When writing English my first drafts usually have too many words. With effort I can revise and make it concise. A rough metric for me seems to be removing half of my original words (no joke). ...
A well-known quote from Bjarne Stroustrup the creator of C++: There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. I can definitely understand the sentiment of this having experience with a number of popular and not-so-popular languages in my career from C and C++ to Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, and even Ada. To try something positive I am going to write about some points I like from my favorite languages, why I like them, and why I might choose to use one over another. ...