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That's easy to say, but the fact that it is still in use today speaks volumes for a language developed in the very early 1970s. A lot of other languages have come and gone since then.
Real programmers use butterflies
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No argument.
You sure can't beat C in the embedded area, lots of those chips are still 8bit with 1k memory or less. The bigger 32bit RISK chips, sure use C++ if it helps keep you organized. I've found the less abstraction layers to the IO, the closer to real time you get. There have been a few new languages biting at C toes like Rust or D, and they've ventured in to the embedded arena a bit; should be interesting to watch.
Just my opinion but C++ has always felt like Wenger 16999 Swiss Army Knife Giant[^] when all you really needed was Uncle Henry Rancher[^]
My only reason to mention COBAL is IBM is still producing those mainframes mostly to keep those systems running. The COVID-19 crisis shows there is still a need for COBAL developers to extend or modify and maintain these legacy systems. Now I wouldn't suggest a newly released CS student take that direction as a career, since eventually they will be phased out sometime in my life time I would guess/hope.
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The fact that you can use C++ with so many different paradigms (OOP, generic programming, procedural, even functional programming these days) leads to a lot of misuse, but its power in that regard is amazing. You can use it to do domain-specific-language style coding. In terms of this flexibility, it's unmatched.
The problem is, C++ isn't taught well, so it often isn't used well. It's not OO primarily. It's power comes primarily from templates so generic programming is the order of the day. A $20 book called Accelerated C++ is better at teaching C++ than all the courses one took to get that shiny lil CS degree.
I've seen so much OO C++ code in my time it's just silly. MFC comes to mind.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I don't hate PHP but I'm just not particularly excited about its existence. 
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Sander Rossel wrote: JavaScript is AWESOME
I know a lot of people who no longer believe you can spell: "AWFUL" has no 'E's, no 'S's, no 'O's, and no 'M's ... but we knew what you meant.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You are absolutely right: we need to get serious, and admit that all programming languages suck ... except the one, or two, we really like.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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When I say anything good about Java it's sarcasm, and not hidden 
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Well said.
BTW, you missed out "and c# is better than all those POS"
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I got it from Facebook, but it was a Twitter screenshot, so probably a screenshot from the CodeProject Twitter account on the CodeProject Facebook page which I now shared back on CodeProject 
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Now you just need to take a blurry picture of the screen with your phone, paste it into a Word document, fax that document to yourself, scan it in, and then upload the scan to Facebook. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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TIL that CodeProject is on Twitter.
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Wait a second, CodeProject is on Twitter????
😳
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I don't get it. What's the joke?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Look at what positive things he says about PHP 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Ya, I saw that, it just wasn't funny to me. I guess you need Monty Python humor to think it's funny. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Then you got the joke; that you don't find it funny is another story. I don't find it funny that
Delphi is FORGOTTEN.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well we have a desktop application that uses both C# and Delphi interchangeably. We embed C# into Delphi forms and launch C# from Delphi. It's quite the madness.
Definitely breaking my own signature quote rule ↓.
Bond
Keep all things a simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Python has braceless if statements
Real programmers use butterflies
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I prefer to kiss girls without braces.
Or at least in those days when I did kiss girls.
(Actually, I even preferred girls without bras.)
Programming languages might be diferent.
I was programming Pascal in my youth, with BEGIN and END.
Sometimes I preferred that in girls as well.
Nowadays, I would prefer a BEGIN only.
I don't think girls with braces would attract me nowadays.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Or at least in those days when I did kiss girls.
You've moved on to boys? 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: You've moved on to boys?
In my entire life I haven't met any boy I found attractive in that way. Chances are minimal that it will happen now.
I guess that we are different in this respect: If so should happen, I would certainly not feel ashamed by it. It wouldn't be against my morals. My ideas of what is "natural". A handful of my colleagues / friends have same-sex SOs. I think that is fine. With my opposite-sex SO friends/collagues, I often shake my head: How can they manage to live with that person? - but that is none of my business. Actually, none of my same-dsex SO friends/colleagues provoke the same reactions in me. If it did, I would say the same to myself: That is none of my business.
That is one aspect that puzzles me: The Land of Freedom certainly is not one who grants you freedom from your neighbour's codemnation. In principele, you have your freedom, but the price you may have to pay is that your neighbours won't talk to you, you may have problems finding a job, people won't do business with you. That makes your freedom somewhat hollow.
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