Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.