If you think this paper is pro-C++, read it again: > many languages like C++ or Java are now old enough that if they would have > offered significant advantage

If you think this paper is pro-C++, read it again: > many languages like C++ or Java are now old enough that if they would have > offered significant advantage over C, they should have supplanted C by now, > this clearly hasn’t happened. I don't agree with all the points though and the rhetoric is pretty weak IMO, like the point about cars being safe for pedestrians. But I agree with the points about C being simple and having great tooling (thanks to being simple).