Oh my, another day, another random unrelated link fest. I do happen to have watched that talk, and I'm not sure what point you want to make by linking to it. Th

Oh my, another day, another random unrelated link fest. I do happen to have watched that talk, and I'm not sure what point you want to make by linking to it. That talk is someone else's opinion how to get students to write some C++ that compiles - students with no prior understanding of C++ or of programming. Students that do not aspire to be great programmers or even to understand a little bit of what's happening here. That will not be able to help themselves when there's a 200-line error spewn from templated containers for example. That don't even want to understand (or have trouble understanding) the concept pointers. It's NOT a talk suggesting that C is bad or that the use of it is bad (despite the title). It's a talk that suggests that C++ needn't be hard. If we were about actually understanding the language and making significant use of its features, Bjarne Stroustroup himself begs to disagree with the idea that C++ is a language that an individual can fully understand. It's a talk suggesting how to approach teaching when the goal is to get quick (and surely limited) results instead of understanding. But that's totally uninteresting to me. If it's interesting to you, we should end doing more comments, and I should try not to be annoyed when I read your evangelism and your ton of comments where you often hop around and quickly change topic when someone disagrees, and where you instead throw more links to pages that may have a title that suits your agenda, but that are often low on content or dead-in-the-water stuff, or that are completely unrelated to the discussion. I'm tired of playing wack-a-mole with you.