I've never heard that. I do remember seeing here on Hacker News an old job ad for Amazon (close to founding) that was looking for C++ programmers. [edit] Just

I've never heard that. I do remember seeing here on Hacker News an old job ad for Amazon (close to founding) that was looking for C++ programmers. [edit] Just found it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ba.jobs.offered/-rvJUMBbZ18 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ba.jobs.offered/-rvJ...