Maybe, but the answers he gave were solid and interesting. one of the best interviews I've ever seen with Bjarn. Here are some good quotes:
You probably didn’t mean that, but “syntax” isn’t the most important aspect of software development. People will suffer atrocious syntax to get valuable functionality (C++ template meta-programming is an example). Also, developers and maintainers of production code eventually tire of cute (often very terse) syntax.
[to change how people use C++] I’d like to replace uses of arrays and pointers with std::arrays and vectors. I’d like to eliminate macros. I’d like to replace old-style for loops with range-for loops. I’d like to eliminate overuse of free store (heap). I’d like to break up large functions into smaller and more precisely defined ones. I’d like to replace ad hoc code with algorithms.
Not everybody can become a good programmer. The world needs a lot of programmers, maybe 20 million, but we don’t need a billion. We need to distinguish between the education of professionals and giving people a bit of computer literacy.
Languages without C’s problems typically rely on C or C++ to do their dirty work for them. I think we should think more about isolating unsafe code in a program than to eliminate it.
My aim has been constant: a direct mapping to hardware plus zero-overhead abstraction.....I hope that the tide has turned so that C++ is becoming more “novice friendly.”
