It's time to take your meds.

It sounds like what you're referring to may be a reference an oft-quoted piece from Brian Kernighan (originally via "The Elements of Programming Style"):

“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”

They do use it for Intellisense though, because C++ code is so difficult to process that Microsoft couldn't manage to re-use their own (presumably it'd be too much work to re-architect).

Which means that there are essentially only two truly robust, re-usable C++ front-ends in the world: Clang and EDG. This is bad for everyone, because it hurts portability.

(So I totally emphasize with the OP's comments. I wish there were some way to version the language, so that we wouldn't have to be saddled with backwards compatibiliy cruft for eternity.)

The pursuit of a worthy opponent on the battlefield is, to a true warrior, the reason to rise each morning.

Brain segmentation fault: received SIGSEG_PERSON_TYPED_POST_TOO_FAST (aborting).

From Mike's blog (in reference to the ZFS+Fishworks effort), probably the highest profile departure from the aforementioned article is this fun fact:

"What began as a mere $2.1M incremental engineering investment for 2.8 years has now shipped more than 100 petabytes, more than 6000 systems, and 100X in revenue. "

That would be fine - and be like the RHEL/Fedora duo, but you don't get any updates with OpenSolaris either. When "the network is the computer", everyone should at least get security updates.