Indeed. There is plenty evidence that there are a ton of shit C programmers out there, as well. It's not very hard to take a random OSS C (or C++) project and f

Indeed. There is plenty evidence that there are a ton of shit C programmers out there, as well. It's not very hard to take a random OSS C (or C++) project and find bugs or potential bugs in the form of undefined or unspecified behavior. Correctly performing signed integer arithmetic without introducing undefined behavior is surprisingly hard. Additionally, most people never bother to do it correctly in either C or C++ because, well, it's a pain in the ass and it slows the code down. Linus's argument against C++ is basically akin to Dijkstra's argument against `goto`. Like any tool, it can be abused. But they've seen too many abuses for their own taste, so they ban the tool completely despite the advantages the tool may have.