Go Programming talk [OT] - C is simple enough!???

[Jer]

Walter Bright wrote:
> nobody wrote:
>> Linus Torvalds shows his opinion about why he chooses C here:
>> http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=110618&threadid=110549&roomid=2
>>
>>
>> He wants a language that context-free, simple, down to the metal.
>> He dislikes C++ b/c it has many abstraction.
>>
>> I think some D experts should post some comments.
>
> This showed up on reddit:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cdncx/linus_about_c_productivity_again/

That's a long thing. Care to sum it up? And what is your value anyway? Do 
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