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Just because you disagree with something does not automatically make it a troll.

AFAIK it's reasonably well known as an unintentional troll - there was a stackoverflow question about the FQA (still looking for the link) that basically mooted almost every point.

I was reading it as a neutral party, however some very knowledgeable C++ appeared to convince all comers that the FQA is either based on ignorance or is disingenuous.

Maybe this is it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/385297/whats-wrong-with-c...

Summarizing: "C++ is hard but makes some things possible that aren't in other languages."

The FQA dude is a troll: he criticizes without offering better alternatives, ignoring tradeoffs and considerations and overlooking any advantages offered by C++.

I also once tried referencing the C++ FQA on stackoverflow and was quickly downvoted. Maybe SO is just the wrong place to mention it, probably because of a C++ bias from the high percentage of SO users who develop on MS platforms.

My disagreement has nothing to do with it -- the quoted remark was completely without basis in fact.

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