Negative. C++ had the reputation of "computer science educated" back when the average CS grad could barely spell Microsoft. Rather than "Microsoft ruined every

Negative. C++ had the reputation of "computer science educated" back when the average CS grad could barely spell Microsoft. Rather than "Microsoft ruined everything", nearly the entire commercial software industry standardized on C++, and entry-level "coderbots" was who they wanted to hire out of school. C++ lost its sex-appeal because its simply more interesting to do web startup things than to be a junior coder at Big Software Inc.