Fun quote, but factually incorrect. For example, who was the first user of C++? Bjarne himself. He needed the power of Simula, but at the time Simula implementations didn't scale. He took the ideas he found useful in the language and put some into C, as he was building large scale C/BCPL applications.

To me that's the definition of building a language for yourself. You actually write a language that you need to solve a specific problem you have.

And I find his categorization of good vs bad languages somewhat absurd. What actually makes Ada, C++, and Pascal bad? His lack of understanding? What makes C, Perl, and Lisp good? The inverse?

While I have my own personal prefernces with respect to languages, I fully believe a large part of it is familiarity. I've NEVER met anyone who could argue why a particular language was truly bad. They usually are just passionately arguing religion, and I find that tiring. It was cute when I was in high school, but those debates are getting tired.