I get the impression that most European shops dodged the C/C++ bullet. They seem to prefer sane Algol derivatives with bounds checking. Here in the US, instea

I get the impression that most European shops dodged the C/C++ bullet. They seem to prefer sane Algol derivatives with bounds checking. Here in the US, instead of getting something like "Eiffel", we got "Java", after the insanity of connecting C++ to the internet was demonstrated. It's all cowboy country on this side of the pond :-) ... and yeah, hearing issues are much more serious than problematic programming languages.