Do you think anything in that link is relevant to this article or did you just want to get in on the C++ bashing and had nothing to contribute of your own?

I think its relevant, honestly. C++ is a pile of hacks, layer upon layer, that only a small highly talented set of programmers can manage to master and the rest shoot themselves in the foot with. Linus says that in his own way, but that's the truth of the situation: C++ is a mess.

My takeaway from experience from all of that is to use C (as Linus argues).