No. It isn't about avoiding "modern" conveniences, it's about avoiding the specific baggage (a highly contextually-dependent grammar and operator overloading ar

No. It isn't about avoiding "modern" conveniences, it's about avoiding the specific baggage (a highly contextually-dependent grammar and operator overloading are two examples given) that C++ drags with it. He ends with: "But C++? I really don't think the "good features" of it are very good at all. If you leave C behind, do it properly and get some real features that matter. GC, some concurrency support, dynamic code generation, whatever."