C++ is a pile of crap.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

Only failure makes us experts.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.