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The author of the OP has a pretty well written rebuttal to everything Torvalds has said about C++:

http://warp.povusers.org/OpenLetters/ResponseToTorvalds.html

I looked at the rebuttal and I couldn't make past the part where he argues against this point - It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it ... Even if the choice of C were to do nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C*

As someone who had substantial exposure to interviewing and hiring C and C++ programmers to add to a team of 250 it was bloody obvious that a lot of pure C++ programmers are the pompous know-it-alls who think they know C++, while C people are those with far more realistic self-assessment who actually do know the language. Linus got it absolutely right.

That article is not very informative, and spends a lot of time characterizing Linus as someone with the “C-hacker syndrome.”

I find the article to be vastly more informative than most of Linus' posts about C++, which usually read more like rants than well informed criticism. He does not characterize Linus as a "C-hacker", Linus does that himself by posting an opinion about C++ that completely lacks substance.

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