🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm just listening to you guys (or reading at).  I'd say
that more than 60% of the debugging time we spend when
using C++ resides in the dark spots of this damn language,
as you mentioned: 
- slack pointers, 
- garbage collecting,
- run-time type checking.  
- Even Stroustrup is careful when explaining the use of 
exception handling!
- What else ? Oh! references, I was as about to forget them.
- Templates (they never managed to have that made clean).

It now seems that computer technology grows faster than 
applications (if MS products are not considered!).

If Java can provide us an efficient programming support,
I'd accept a reasonable performance lack for a while,
and gain in stability and ease of use.  

But it doesn't seem that Java kits will be free.  They
already started to sell'em.  And I don't think Java
will make it against C and C++ if they adopt that
policy...

	Pierre