Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but you sum up the problem with C++ well. It's exactly because Bjarne has forced any idea he remotely heard about into C++ standard that C++ is a complete incoherent mess of a language it is today.

for writing bad code?

We have pretty decent evidence that theistic gods don't exist (and that includes all three desert dogmas) . So, he is right. God is man made.

The only people who have not examined this evidence are the deluded who want to remain willfully ignorant, or people who are not trained enough to even understand evidence based reasoning, so ignorant in either case.

And you are under the impression this can't be done without an IDE? Yet another person who does not see a difference between IDE and compiler/debugger. But of course you feel qualified to talk about things you don't have any idea about.

Microsoft reboot monkeys keep repeating this fallacy all the time. Visual studio is really a rather dumb editor. UNIX terminal (and toolchain) with good editor like vim or emacs is way more powerful IDE. But people who program by clicking on pictures would never know.

Overproduction of developers/comp.sci. graduates does not create a bubble. Perhaps a lot of miserable people, but not an economic bubble like the .com bubble of the late 90s. The most likely economic impact overproduction of qualified people will have is the cheapening of labor i.e. lower pay rate for developers.

It's is thousands of times harder to get hired as a manager, than it is a developer that knows their stuff of ANY age. A typical company only needs so many managers, but lots of developers, it's simple as that.

Come on guys. What kind of education do you have? Post graduate degrees in CS, math, engineering. You are almost 30 when you leave school with that coveted PhD.

I say know you stuff, be really good at what you do, or don't do it at all, and you won't have to worry about bringing value to employers.

Sorry, but you can't be both religious and sane. The cognitive dissonance required to believe religious fairy tales and reconcile them with modern scientific reality is really mentally draining and is a form on mental illness.

The fact that we treat religious as sane is only because it is perfectly socially acceptable to believe outrageous things, like that god impregnated his virgin mother in order that he could die on the cross for what he condemned the humanity to and so he could make himself forgive the transgressions he invented, performed by the beings created in his own image. And his followers are required to eat his flesh, soul and divinity in a form of a cookie which magically turns into him after a few incantations. All that so that we could join him one day in a celestial North Korea, praising the dear leader incessantly, compelled to love someone we fear (essence of sadomasochism).

But if the above story weren't so familiar (see Mormonism) or Scientology and even the deluded Christians have issues with how absurd it is.

He hasn't discovered the Sun yet?

requires it to be strong, nor particularly light. How about lighter road bike frames (which is the first application that I care about :D)?

My Eclipse alone gets 8 GB :D. I also run SQL Server, Oracle 11, JBoss etc. I easily eat 32 GB.

That's because you are running 32 bit kernel. 64 bit kernel eats quite a bit more RAM.

It cost me almost $900 back in 2008 but it was worth it. My iMac has 16 GB and Macbook Pro 8 GB. Memory is the first thing you should upgrade, followed by an SSD.