> The claim from the article is not about their beliefs, it is about their activity. No, the claim is about a property of a programming language. The activity

> The claim from the article is not about their beliefs, it is about their activity. No, the claim is about a property of a programming language. The activity is cited as evidence in support of the claim of the fitness of C++ as a general-purpose programming language. The problem with C++ is that it is a legacy language, and so the fact that a zillion people use it today might be because it's a good language, but it might also be because it has so much institutional inertia behind it that this is enough to override the fact that it's a totally shit language. The Catholic Church has been around for 2000 years, but that doesn't necessarily mean that its factual claims have any merit. The Church's success might be because it is in communion with the truth, or it might be because it has so much institutional and societal inertia that it keeps chugging right along despite having no actual merit. The success of the Church might also be due to people subscribing to the logical fallacy that because a lot of people subscribe to it that it must have some merit, which after a while becomes a self-sustaining cycle. (Note that a self-sustaining cycle is different from a self-fulfilling prophecy because the latter actually becomes true if enough people subscribe to it.)