Michael taught both the SICP and the Software Design and Implementation classes at an ivy league school for several years. I’m fairly certain that he knows what he’s talking about.

I’ll admit that the post was a little ranty. It was quickly reworked from an internal email conversation, and it’s not intended to be a taken as if it came from a conference proceeding.

With that in mind, do you deny that C/C++ “sacrifice correctness, safety, robustness, testability, and maintainability in favor of… ‘performance’”?