There are many applications and games written in C/C++ that I love.

I also occasionally code in C - sometimes it is fun to use pointers and read/write files without chaining two or three objects.

There are however huge drawbacks to using C/C++.
There is surely a full list somewhere, but for me currently the not-buying-point is the preprocessor.

The preprocessor allows conditional compilation of any file. Sometimes the file might do that, sometimes something different.

This means that it isn't practical to have pre-compiled modules (although I guess you could go the route of splitting your project into dozens of libraries).
Thus, a very small file can require Gigabytes of memory to compile, because all the dependencies have to be pulled in, and represented in memory.

C is cool for learning how things work, but not good for making things work.

I found some bugs documenting my own code lately, but I think that only works if you write the documentation a month or so after you wrote the code.

If they had a 3D chat client and game in 1995, which contains portions of the patent (which was filed in 1999),
they essentially made their own prior art.

IANAL either, but AFAIK you had 1 year in the US during which you could file a patent after its technology went public, and in Europe you had to file the patent before you made you technology public.

There is some logic about reasoning about low-probability events here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110712221603/http://thedeadobserver.hostwebs.com/

cool if you know the hotkeys, useless otherwise

No, if you move the horse, black can win.

However, to make it fair, black shouldn't move the horsie either ..

Then I discovered it was mostly firebug with the network log turned on that ate the memory with every ajax request made by setInterval.

Here's something about the developer:
http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/3/21/2884331/redemption-derek-smart-flame-line-of-defense-battlecruiser-3000AD

Oh well, forget it ..

Well, because of that.

Don't think it will get any better with video ..

In the end, you get a choice between two candidates, while you may hold a variety of opinions on 20 subjects.

Also, after elections, the electee usually backpedals when he has to conduct actual business (as usual).

.. it might actually work.

For function f(x){ return array('x'=>$x); }

You can't even do the above in PHP because it was developed to make parsing easy (see $), not coding.

I guess the validity of $x='x';$$$$$$$$$$$$$x; makes up for that ;-)

It is also lacking a means to list variables in your scope, I think.

.. you end up in jail and the money isn't yours either.