"It's a hack" is also an insufficient reason to avoid using C++, although I think it's both true and a useful thing to know before getting involved with C++.

The very nature of a hack is that someone needed it at some point. Even if C++ is a hack, that doesn't prohibit it from being the right answer in some situations.

What is or isn't sufficient is relative and context-sensitive. For me it might be. For triple A game studios definitely isn't.

I'm getting annoyed of being 'politically correct' on the internet all the time. The title is obviously a metaphor, and it doesn't need to be defensive.

http://www.metafilter.com/156134/The-internet-has-made-defen...