<i>&quot;Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do </i>nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C&quot;*<p>His problem is assuming that there are no stupid programmers in C, and it can&#x27;t be abused. I haven&#x27;t had a career as long as Linus&#x27;, but I&#x27;ve seen people abusing C more than C++, and writing their own inefficient implementation of extremely basic things.