I also found this very awkward. Especially because the author created the character he subsequently demolished. While I can follow most of the C problems, C++

I also found this very awkward. Especially because the author created the character he subsequently demolished. While I can follow most of the C problems, C++ has never interested me. As as a Common Lisp programmer, all of this seems quite demented. By reading the slides I have learned about some interesting optimization concepts, and wondered how CL compilers do it. But honestly for 99% of my Job I couldn't imagine using something like C. Edit:grammar.