I don't have a dog in this fight, but a major thesis of the article is that this is effectively not true for C++ (vs C) because the language is so complicated (

I don't have a dog in this fight, but a major thesis of the article is that this is effectively not true for C++ (vs C) because the language is so complicated (thus the implementations so inconsistent/subtly incorrect) that it's incredibly difficult to determine exactly what the compiler is going to do with your input (or conversely, determine what in your input caused a given error in your object code.)