>>21
Well, I'd definitely take C over pretty much anything else any day of the year, any time of day, including nights and weekends. Only save for PHP for productive scripting.
>>24
Software in general is moving away from the KISS principle to the realm of blOOatware. Especially now that there's a lot of open sauce solutions, commercial solutions are made ridiculously cOOmplex on purpose so they can justify the huge amount of mOOney they cOOst.
>>31
Exactly. Java type handling sucks monkey balls. The Java compiler is able to annoy the hell out of me for the simplest things. IIRC even short x = 3 requires casting. This is really fucking stupid.