
Source: http://tech.yandex.ru/events/cpp-party/june-msk/talks/1954/
I especially like 36:58
The Vasa was a 17th-century Swedish warship which suffered such feature creep during construction that it sank shortly after leaving the harbour on its maiden voyage. In the early 1990s, the C++ standardisation committee adopted the Vasa as a cautionary tale, discouraging prospective language extensions with ...