"Mediocre" is way too negative. The writer could also have used "pragmatic". I started working purely in C and there it was worth to deeply get into it. These d

"Mediocre" is way too negative. The writer could also have used "pragmatic". I started working purely in C and there it was worth to deeply get into it. These days you have to know a much wider range of tools so it's hard to know them all in detail. Because of this I have learned to prefer simple code. Personally I wouldn't mind having the times back when you had the time to become a complete C++ geek but these days are over for most of us.