Well, the source for the quote is the author of the most hated upon language in history :)
I actually almost came into the thread and left a comment saying simply "C++".
I actually almost came into the thread and left a comment saying simply "C++".
And the list goes ...
So as one said, hating a language is imature. You don't like it, don't use it.
Similar thing was true for PHP for some time: it wasn't pretty, but it was good enough, and none of the alternatives were as ubiquitous as mod_php.
I only wish it had some of the sexy features of other languages, but C++0x (or whatever it's called now) is addressing a lot of that.
It's really hard to take the things that C++ does well and do it significantly better. I think D has largely proven that.