"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."
— Bjarne Stroustrup

January 1, 1970

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The Design and Evolution of C++ (1994), p. 207; a later clarification adds, "And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#."