"These are decisions for which there's no rational justification whatsoever. For example, writing a non-speed-critical program (which is most of them) in C or C

"These are decisions for which there's no rational justification whatsoever. For example, writing a non-speed-critical program (which is most of them) in C or C++. A few years ago you could justify that because the other languages didn't have such extensive libraries, but today it's ludicrous." I think this is the text that was intended to be cited. Thanks to the GP for posting that article, it's well worth reading for any and all of Bram Cohen's insights.