Jesus, this mess just never ends. Torvalds' criticism of C++ is lazy thinking, but the schadenfreude that non-C++ developers exult in from his criticism is jus

Jesus, this mess just never ends. Torvalds' criticism of C++ is lazy thinking, but the schadenfreude that non-C++ developers exult in from his criticism is just plain dumb. Go back and read Torvalds' screed (here's a link http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus). Aside from some sloppy hand-wavy arguments about how he feels icky 'trusting' standard libraries, is he actually criticizing C++? Where in that mess of half-congealed reasoning is mention of multiple-inheritance or operator overloading, or any of the other classic C++ mis-features? Torvalds is a systems-programmer and he detests the greedy-method design-as-we-implement approach to development that C++ application programmers wanted to bring to git. But, guess what? That pretty much describes application developers working in every development language in common use today. You program in Java? Chances are Torvalds thinks you're a hack unworthy of working on git or linux. Ruby? Probably even worse. Javascript? Don't make me laugh. Torvalds even refers to you - yes, you - as "some CS people".