I had a love-hate relationship with C++.

In the decade prior to the release of the first version of C++ my company bought me a Lisp Machine, and programming was so much fun.

C++ was gnarly, and I put a lot of effort into making C++ easier for our new hires out of college to use (I wrote a C++ GUI library for them to use that evolved into my personal code for my two “Portable C++ GUI” books for McGraw-Hill). I ended up writing 5 C++ books, and using the language was fantastic for my career, but:

I never really liked C++