I watched Stroustrup be hideous to a member of the audience at microsoft's going native conference 2-3 years ago. "I understand what you are trying to ask and

I watched Stroustrup be hideous to a member of the audience at microsoft's going native conference 2-3 years ago. "I understand what you are trying to ask and I think that you are wrong." -- or something so close to that as makes no difference. While the audience hooted, laughed and razzed. Right then it became clear to me why the C++ community is so awful. It starts with Bjarne who is /not/ a nice guy. Every other language community I've dealt with, C, Perl, Python, Scheme is more pleasant than C++ with their annointed "smart people" who stand in their circle while failing to discourage everyone else who, well, acts exactly like Bjarne did above. And just to be clear, Bjarne gave a lecture in which he pointed out linked lists are awful on modern hardware. The question was, "Shouldn't the standard library make the right decision for you if one is always wrong?" Whatever you think of the question or the appropriate response Bjarne was just being nasty and enjoying it like a school bully. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson apparently had some experience of Bjarne he spoke about.