How hard will it be to find a replacement? One more fitting to modern progressive BBC? Can't be that hard to find an aging homosexual with no driving talent other than to get speeding tickets.

The weird thing is, I'm also for small government- governments limited to 100,000 citizens or less, run on an absolute right to life and private property for anything that it takes to maintain life.

The trouble is, that goes against your average libertarian, whose only difference between them and a crony capitalist is enough money to bribe politicians.

I've seen enough anti-war-on-drugs and pro-abortion from libertarians and their fellow travelers in the Republican Party to know that the center of that triangle is far left of where I'm comfortable, for sure!

Except, of course, for the minor third party of the extreme libertarians, whose faith in liberty above all else calls for a government too weak to police social issues, and taxes so small that they could rightly be called user fees for access to the courts.

Two C++ programmers will argue, 'What will my compiler do with this code?"

You have a very good point, but that's less about the language and more about the compiler. Arguably the most broken compiler was (and likely still is) Microsoft's Visual C++.

But somehow C# is "fixed". LOL.

Emacs lost that argument when it added a vi mode. :)
gVim FTW

Dude, the original poster who claimed that C++ is bloated probably loves him some Java or C#, both of which are arguably even more bloated that C++ is, since the "bloat" of C++ is the STL and Boost... which is comparably smaller than .NET, Swing, JavaFX, etc.

A better developer who understands what it is he or she is trying to accomplish would help more.

I'd say I've seen just as much piss poor code written in Java and C#, but that'd be a lie. I've seen FAR worse code written in Java and C# than I have in C++ because the level of entry is much lower.

When I was in college, not understanding pointers means you didn't graduate. Now... I interview "C# Developers" who claim 10+ years experience who can't tell me the difference between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference, and don't know the difference between the heap and the stack.

If you care about performance, the ability of C++ to "run on the iron" is a valuable tool to have in your arsenal. Add in inline assembler, and IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING you can write blazing fast code in C++ and still provide a sensible code architecture.

There's no sense in blaming the language for the abuses developers have written -- you might as well indict English for the horrible spelling and grammar of many Americans...

If you know what you're doing, C++ is a terrific, powerful language suitable for a plethora of projects. On the other hand, if you don't know what you're doing, well, I guess there's Visual Basic or C#.

In a way. More like a Big Father With A Shotgun party.

Actually, my comment was on the stupidity of her security setup- which provided not only no protection against the enemies of the United States, but also no protection against her perceived domestic enemies.

Well, that and the little fact that the e-mails *might* reveal something about the murder of an ambassador in Libya.

BTW, has nobody informed her that smartpho

Nope. People before pennies and people before dogma and people before sex.

No, they really shouldn't. I'm a fiscal liberal but a social conservative. There is no political party in the United States I am comfortable with.

It must never have occurred to them that Fox News and the FBI use hackers too.