It's also surprisingly incorrect about C++ given that he goes on to say "A programming language should not be that huge. Not at all. It’s just that it should ha

It's also surprisingly incorrect about C++ given that he goes on to say "A programming language should not be that huge. Not at all. It’s just that it should have a decent standard library filled with all the goodies so people wouldn't have to reinvent them." The 1338 pages of the C++11 standard is more than 2/3rds about the standard library. Only around the first 400 are about the core language.