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I am pretty sure that Linus knows what he is talking about

• growt 17y ago
  I was more referring to the parent comment and all the people that upvoted his comment and the submission.
• Silhouette 17y ago
  Why do you think he knows what he's talking about? On the evidence of this article, he's a guy who likes to make ad hominem attacks, unjustified generalisations, and unsupported (and demonstrably wrong) accusations based on proof by raw ego. This much is obvious to numerous people who actually use C++ to do the sort of things Torvalds criticises. C++ has plenty of flaws, to be sure. And yes, it's being steadily overtaken by newer tools for many purposes, too. But Torvalds didn't make a reasoned argument based on those things. He wrote a rant, and not even a very good one.
• joe_the_user 17y ago
  But I think you have to parse what he's talking about... As far as I can tell, everything Linus writes that sounds like a provocative "religious" statement about programming is really just a statement about his world of Kernel development. He just isn't concerned about with other space so "C++ is a horrible language.." yes, for Kernel program, sure.