As a long time C++ programmer, I'm not sure C++ matters for the reasons given. C matters, Lips matters, Smalltalk matters, C++ only matters in the if you can gr

As a long time C++ programmer, I'm not sure C++ matters for the reasons given. C matters, Lips matters, Smalltalk matters, C++ only matters in the if you can grok this you can grok anything way. Also I strongly suspect the number of good software engineers is pretty much fixed, and no amount of fudging with this or that will change it. Now the number of bad or at best average engineers, I suspect that is very responsive to all kinds of things.