Amen. RAII will be in the next great language, as it is a useful tool. This is not an academic concern, it is something that happens all the time due to rushed

Amen. RAII will be in the next great language, as it is a useful tool. This is not an academic concern, it is something that happens all the time due to rushed deadlines, stressed developers, or simple naivete. People love to slag off C++ but the higher-level devs have done some serious thinking about how to engineer robust programs. Sutter's 'Exceptional C++' is eye-opening the first time around, and the concepts are applicable to any language that has exception handling. Programming in a transactional manner has visibly improved my designs -- mostly through the paranoia that almost any statement could throw an exception.