When the heck did .NET took over????

I was looking at job vacancies and all of them all said to the point of must have exp in C# or ASP (for web programming).

When the heck did Microsoft took over??? I though C++ and PHP were reigning still.

>> Proper programs don't require to waste time bound checking
Proper programs show up on the security alerts every week.

>> you can overload operator[]
Surely C doesn't support overloading? I thought that was only for C++.