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

[Walter Bright]

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 
> 
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> He wants a language that context-free, simple, down to the metal.
> He dislikes C++ b/c it has many abstraction.

This is another interesting point of view by Linus:

http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=110699&threadid=110549&roomid=2