After reading the presentation, I'm imagining the presenter has an obnoxious loudmouth voice and totally misses the point. He goes on and on to put down C++ an

After reading the presentation, I'm imagining the presenter has an obnoxious loudmouth voice and totally misses the point. He goes on and on to put down C++ and the four book authors as if he holds a personal grudge against both. He makes it seem as if C++ programs were written by code monkeys pasting examples from books in order to make it work while other programming languages are god's word. It does not occur to me why he thinks that in C++ there should be a general solution for an iterator over any kind of collection^1. Yet C++ allows to implement data structures on the lowest level and only the programmer may know how to iterate over a certain multiply linked structure (if possible at all). The Perl counterexample looks like a straw-man to me. I agree with you, the core of the talk comes after the talk and is not presented properly. 1: For standard collections in C++ there are iterators predefined and you can iterate over the collection easily.