The complement to this paradox is the Linus Torvalds C++ rant http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus > C++ is

The complement to this paradox is the Linus Torvalds C++ rant http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus > C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C. > In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles Bader jokingly said "to piss you off", but it's actually true. I've come to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really would prefer to piss off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with. Oh Linus...