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

Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

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

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

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.