# The guy who created a monolithic kernel in the 90s thinks C++ sucks

>C++ is a horrible language. It’s made more horrible by the fact that
>a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it’s much
>much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly,
>even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++
>programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

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In general, I'd say that anybody who designs his kernel modules for C++ is 
either 
 (a) looking for problems
 (b) a C++ bigot that can't see what he is writing is really just C anyway
 (c) was given an assignment in CS class to do so.
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