I'd really like to know how this whole "meme" of the Arduino "not using C/C++" got started. I'd also like to know why these people parrot this stuff, when it would be fairly easy to check it out for themselves and see that the avr-gcc compiler is invoked. Finally, it irks me that people think of the Arduino as a toy or worthless or something; like somehow it is impossible to code for the ATMega168/328 in "straight C" (like any other AVR) or even (boo! j/k) assembler - then upload the resulting hex file with a programmer via ICSP. I think maybe most of the people are ticked because an open-source community has made microcontrollers easy to use (similar "hate" was directed toward the Basic Stamp series, too)...
