Since C++11 the destructor invocation in case of an exception is guaranteed. http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_f...

Saturate your body with sensors. A bluetooth connection for every hair in your ears, nose and butt. Wifi for each of your liver's lobes, flow sensor in your intestines, strain gauges glued to your nails, ears and eyelids, a nanomagnetometer for every neuron, tile the inner wall of your small intestine with enzyme chips, etc, etc. If enough people follows that trend, soon the data flow is going to surpass any available computing power to process it. An being fashionable in the process, the real concern of most gadget users.

Connectivity seems to be this decade's fin tail and chrome craziness.

Maybe those upper middle class parents associate vaccination with third world countries, and they're dark skinned and/or poor and filthy children sitting naked in dirt. Anti vaxxers children are superior to those halve humans. Watch this: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previe...
http://www.theatlantic.com/hea...
http://www.latimes.com/busines...

You show the point. They don't want to pay. They want someone who is gullible. And that reduces to someone who is as young and inexperienced as possible with the minimum required knowledge. The long list is for lowering the applicant self esteem and make her/him believe that she/he hit the jackpot if hired.

This guy's reasoning is an example of this:
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
And his remarks on complexity, C and python, show his lack of depth in the matters he teaches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

In physics simulations, cad, rendering, etc, C is too low level and lua is too slow. High complexity is inherent to those fields and you can not foretell what abstractions you need in your language. That is the reason for classes and templates. Complex numbers and arrays are simple to implement as native types, they have been native to fortran for decades. Also writing fast and parallelizable number crunching applications that work over complex and dynamic data is one of the reasons for languages like C++. The sole comparison of gnu numeric library to eigen or armadillo is enough evidence.

I thought that the third world bought their technology from the first world. Like USB devices...

You use the "fascism" word without knowing what it means.

Please explain why Israel or Jews are fascist. As someone whose family was victimized by fascism, I find your remark offensive in its banality.

People has that bad habit of dying...

Quoting Finkler: "I don’t feel like I really grok the module system. I definitely don’t understand the class system. What the hell is a generator and how does it work the way it does? I am so lost."
It seems that the gentleman lacks some background IMHO.

And for that reason python is good for a first course, as it forces the students to indent. I am tired of lazy students that don't indent, and then complain why their code doesn't seem to follow the intended flow. It is hard to teach good habits and practices. And any help, specially from the programming languages, is welcome.