It's a programming language that has been used by lots of people in a lot of different contexts. The author of the article think it's a good definition for "gen

It's a programming language that has been used by lots of people in a lot of different contexts. The author of the article think it's a good definition for "general purpose programming language". The original author has never said "N people can't be wrong", it's the reframing of top comment. You can disagree with the "general pupose"-ibility of C++ but I don't think it's an honest way to interpret the argumentation of the author of the article.