I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

When done well, software is invisible.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.