[garryterm]

Trovalds is not comparing top C programmers to average C++ programmers. What he meant was -- a lot of people mess up with kernel code and some of them choose to contribute back. Most of these guys must be => average programmer. So if these guys used C++ to give back to the kernel then it would be chaos.

[Koshkin]

Wasn't BeOS written in C++? I've heard people were impressed by the quality of its code.

[waddlesplash]

The userspace was, the kernel was not. Haiku's kernel is almost entirely C++, though, and people are usually very impressed by our code quality :)