Yes, indeed I was refering to that Linus' post. But thanks for the link, I found Bjarne Strousrup's interview particularily interesting to read: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all

Blew my mind:

"...this new language had to divorce itself from Unix, by hiding all the system calls that bound the two together so nicely. This would enable guys who only knew about DOS to earn a decent living too.

"I believe most people have figured out for themselves that C++ is a waste of time but, I must say, it’s taken them a lot longer than I thought it would.

"It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient."