Yes. There is a section in one of his books where he wrote that he added some feature in an ad-hoc way just because of a request from a colleague. Unfortunately

Yes. There is a section in one of his books where he wrote that he added some feature in an ad-hoc way just because of a request from a colleague. Unfortunately, as I have already written in another comment some months ago, C++ was the wrong thing that came at the right time (C people were starting looking for alternatives, seeing what cool things other languages were doing).