Oh, many have said similar things about C++. A couple famous.
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus"C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot
of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much
easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out,
that in itself would be a huge reason to use C."
http://tex.loria.fr/litte/knuth-interview"The problem that I have with them today is that... C++ is too
complicated. At the moment, it's impossible for me to write portable
code that I believe would work on lots of different systems, unless I
avoid all exotic features. Whenever the C++ language designers had two
competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said
"OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste."
(It has become much worse compared to when he said that.)
Bjarne Stroustrup is actually a smart guy.
Maybe too smart for us mere mortals.