[pencilguin]

It was not the criticism that was damned rude. Criticize anything you like, or don't.

What was rude and, frankly, hateful, was the call to demote or lay off all C++ programmers.

[ayberk]

Apologies if it came as rude or hateful, that wasn't my intention.

Funny thing is I'm a C++ programmer myself right now as I mentioned :) Even if we decide to "deprecate" C++ today, Google alone would have large enough C++ codebase left to maintain for the next two generation of programmers.

So no, I don't think it means we should demote or fire all C++ programmers -- but at the same time I'd like to note that as a programmer no one should be married to a single language -- languages come and go.