> Some nice angles in the article, but now I feel obliged to defend C++ (and actually C# and F# too, but I'll let that to others as I'm sure it will turn up in

> Some nice angles in the article, but now I feel obliged to defend C++ (and actually C# and F# too, but I'll let that to others as I'm sure it will turn up in the HN comments) since the author seems to make no real points to support his view of it as a monster. C++ is incredibly popular, the term "C++" is even known among some non-programmers. This might partially explain why it gets a lot of flack .... oh, that reminds me: There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses - Bjarne Stroustrup, http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that I take the view that all languages are ugly and stupid, especially languages like C and English.