the corner office : tech blog

Damien Katz: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C and a follow up.

Very interesting read. This point in particular got me to thinking about Java circa 2013:

C++ is also a complicated mess, so when you adopt C++ for its libraries and community, you have to take the good with the bad and weird to get the benefits. And there is a lot of disagreement what constitutes bad or weird. Your sane subset of the language is very likely to be at odds with others ideas of a sane subset.