https://medium.com/@stackenterprise/how-programming-has-evolved-4568711e69f2 > So a show of hands, who is writing C++ code? If I could see you, my guess is that outside of a few brave souls, you would not be raising your hand.  The week before I brought up Bjarne Stroustrup, the guy that invented C++. What many people may not realize is that C++ was not the first object-oriented language. Bjarne was inspired by an earlier language called Simula, which itself was a variant of ALGOL. Languages like C++ tend to get a bad rap these days. It is a notoriously difficult language to learn with brain melting syntax. While some schools have used it as a beginning computer course, most agree that it is not a suitable first language. Even Linus Torvalds of Linux fame declared that C++ is a horrible language, going further: > To be fair though, Bjarne had a pretty good comeback…