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

[Don]

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.
> 
> This is another interesting point of view by Linus:
> 
> http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=110699&threadid=110549&roomid=2 
> 

Most of his complaints seem to be about OOP. I particularly like the line:
"Complicated problems don't have some simple strictly hierarchical data 
structures."

I've read comments from Stepanov which criticise OOP and many of the 
other features of C++, for exactly the same reasons which Linus gives. 
It's interesting that their conclusions are so different.