[ellicottvilleny]

I'm not the world's biggest C++ fan, quite the opposite. But this guy hasn't really realized yet that any attempt to build something as expressive and powerful as C++, and just as fast, without any of the things he dislikes in C++ will hit any number of walls, problems, and challenges that nobody out there has overcome. Objective-C gives you almost as much performance as C++ except in the critical cases where message passing can degrade overall performance due to objective C run-time message send overhead.

Performance, Compatibility, Ecosystems, Existing Running Code In Production. Go ahead and rewrite your piddly little apps in Anything You Like. C++, and any other language you hate (Java, C#, whatever) will still be used and significant and powerful tools that people use to get stuff done.

Me I love Delphi, and I'm used to people considering it dead. (It's not dead.) I consider it a better language than C++, but that's just a subjective opinion of my own. I've spent years hating on C++, but I'm done with that. C++ 2011 is a great step forward for the language, and when they finally get modules (2020?) they'll have caught up with TurboPascal (1984). Awesome.