C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

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

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

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

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