Presentations is not his job. I remember in 1992 when he has tried to compile the kernel using g++ mode. Compiling C in C++ mode was a way to detect more errors

Presentations is not his job. I remember in 1992 when he has tried to compile the kernel using g++ mode. Compiling C in C++ mode was a way to detect more errors and to support migration toward C++. A lot of nasty bugs in g++ were discovered thanks to Linus. His main concern was that code generated by g++ was a lot slower than C. Many optimisations were not possible due to the language.