Re:Complexity the cause of poor education? (Score 1)

I think that it's a much shorter learning curve to learn the C language fairly well than C++. I think this has helped in the Gnome project...

I feel differently. (C:

GNOME is C; KDE is C++. Both projects have done extremely well. I would hesitate to say that the difference between C and C++ has affected the two projects at all.

This is because few people learn the language in order to contribute to the project. Most of the interesting contributions to either project have come from people who knew C or C++ beforehand.