> Merely knowing the syntax doesn't make one a "C++ programmer"
Does knowing all the possible abstract layers (uh, it's an ocean) make one a C ++ programmer then?
> this is even more true when you are messing around in the Kernel
It's his right to mess around Kernel and learn things.
The article has zero substance with a generic rant being "i tried to use C++ to write a Kernel Module and ran into problems". There are no specifics w.r.t. C++ nor The Kernel and yet the author blames the C++ Language! Whatever is written up also betrays a certain ignorance of basic C/C++ ABI conventions leading one to surmise that the author is clueless (w.r.t. these two domains). As you can see from other comments in this thread, many others are also of the same opinion while others are guessing all over the map as to what the actual problem might be.