Bell Labs wanted a language that a few really smart people would use to write code that would run on computers like Electronic Switching Systems (ESS) that weren't very fast.

贝尔实验室想要一种语言，只有少数真正聪明的人才能使用它在一些运行速度并不是很快的机器比如电子交换系统(Electronic Switching Systems, ESS)上编写程序。

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The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. — Tom Cargill, object-oriented programming expert at Bell LABS.

—Tom Cargill，贝尔实验室的面向对象编程专家。

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