I tire of having this rant being posted every three months on HN.
Linus is just having a strong reaction, the rant is more than four years old, Linus says nothing interesting about C++ and the same could be said about so many languages that its sad.
Additionally, any post about "this language is teh suxxance" - even when written by someone worth of attention - is generally full of nothing and adds little value to a community.
Just to be clear "mutable" in C++ do not mean what I want it to mean. Actually, it makes things even worse.
Thanks for pointing out the ambiguity, though. I'll try and fix that (that won't be easy, "mutable" definitely is the best keyword for what I want to express).
(Yes, I wrote that article, and I am dead serious. This is also not a random rant. I wrote other articles to back that up: http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/articles/ Note that I don't attack any particular language here, but an entire class of them.)
Linus is just having a strong reaction, the rant is more than four years old, Linus says nothing interesting about C++ and the same could be said about so many languages that its sad.
Additionally, any post about "this language is teh suxxance" - even when written by someone worth of attention - is generally full of nothing and adds little value to a community.