I'm very much in agreement - in principle. But we are where we are, and that gazillion lines is out there. We don't necessarily know which bits of it are runnin

I'm very much in agreement - in principle. But we are where we are, and that gazillion lines is out there. We don't necessarily know which bits of it are running critical infrastructure - I'm not sure that we are even sure which bits of our IT infrastructure are critical, and we don't always know what problems are lurking in the code. So yes, moving to safer alternatives is a very good thing. But that's going to take a long time and cost a lot of money, which we don't necessarily have. So if we can mitigate a bunch of the problems with improved C++, it is a definite win. Let's face it, most of central Italy is still beautiful little stone towns, despite being in an earthquake zone. People still live there in stone houses because demolishing and rebuilding half the country is just not feasible. Our IT infrastructure is possibly in the same state.