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Go&learn C++. It blows my mind how often people confuse C++ with "C with classes" in 2008. Granted, C++ isn't as sexy as OCaml, but it's still C plus some rather nice extentions that (finally) got trully portable and work as advertised.

Powerful templates plus multiple inheritance give you a very impressive weapon to play with. C# and Java don't even come close.

And please... 99% of software on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are built using the same stuff: C/C++/ObjectiveC.

No shit, Sherlock.

Jeff is getting boring. Stating obvious isn't new: he wants to blog almost every day, instead he should pause and come up with actual stuff to write about.

This one is timeless: "I have said it before in public and I am perfectly willing to repeat it that someone introduced to computers via Basic is in all probability mentally mutilated beyond redemption. That is no joke. A major branch of the Siberian Academy of Arts and sciences is aimed at keeping Basic out of Siberian high schools."