Why does C++ still exist?

Why does MS keeps maintaining such a language that caused so many buffer overflows, and generally was not as secure as C# or Vb.NET.

The only + point for C++ is that it compiles into machine code directly, and if we can get C# to do that, then there is no need for a language like C++.

I was wondering why C++ still exists when C# is that good of a language.


MS, why not retire C++, and just focus on C# and Vb.NET and F#?

Expand C# capabilities, and get rid of P/invoke and replace it with a new kind of mechanism to call dlls outside the .NET framework.

Finally, make the .NET framework really .NET, in the sense that it is distributed in terms of processing power, by enabling sharing. So that my application could use the processor that is Idle in a second room in the the house, automatically through the use of Remoting in LAN.

Kill C++, and lets all be on one page, with C#.

Its confusing many people, and things needs to be simpler, with few languages. C# for experts, VB.NET for beginners and intermediates.

That is all.

I suffered with C++/MFC development and it sucked ass. There were libraries for all the things I needed like sockets, threading, localization, encryption, GUI dev, but it was just really clunky and a pain in the ass to manage.  When .Net came out I was hopeful they were re-hashing their dev libraries, but they tied it to this whole managed code movement which really has some baggage that doesn't seem necessary like the garbage collection and byte code.  The situation now is deal with the baggage because for windows dev there really isn't any other option.  C#/.Net is amazing productivity wise, very polished, no headaches, compiler, versioning, or localization problems.  Just the damn performance which seems like something they could fix if they put their mind to it.