C-Based languages

C is an amazingly designed language.  It's beautiful, simple, elegant and fast.
Everything a well designed programming language should be.

C++ then came along and shit all over Dennis Ritchie's masterpiece.  Bjarne took a beautiful, simple, elegant and fast language. And kept shitting on it until all that was left was 'fast'.  Dennis should of beat the shit out of him for turning his work of art into an abomination.

Then Gosling came along, surveyed the turd that Bjarne had dropped, and attempted to clean it up.    He redesigned C++ to remove the crap and attain the elegance that C had.  Unfortunately, in his cleaning frenzy, he over-simplified the language and sacrificed speed.  In the name of simplicity he removed pointers, manual memory management,  generics, operator overloading and native code compilation.  A noble effort, but ultimately just as much of a failure as C++.

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroupstrup

It's funny how deluded Bjarne, he actually thinks C++ is good and the only reason C is still more popular than C++ is because of "political reasons".    In reality C++ has quite a few useful features, but the language additions are so badly designed  that most people would rather make do with C or write slow bloated Java programs than deal with C++.

C++ is so bad that the only people that use it are pretty much forced too because C is too low level, and everything else has shit performance.    If Dennis Ritchie had designed C++ everyone would still be using it for pretty much everything.  Java would be used like a slightly beefier scripting language, not for serious programming.