His company originally was a C++ toolchain shop. Anyway, I was joking — Walter did one of the first (if not the first?) "Proper" C++ compilers, so the idea of

His company originally was a C++ toolchain shop. Anyway, I was joking — Walter did one of the first (if not the first?) "Proper" C++ compilers, so the idea of not learning from C++ is rather ironic.