This is a perfect example of buzzword driven technology recruiting. Imagine this person writing this essay in early 2008, objective-C has all these negatives ag

This is a perfect example of buzzword driven technology recruiting. Imagine this person writing this essay in early 2008, objective-C has all these negatives against it -- ranked about 50 in the popular language index, funky syntax that people can't wrap their heads around, manual memory management, can only write Mac applications (< 5% of devices). Even iPhone is moving to the Web. All Objective-C programmers should give up and move to web technologies. However, about four years later Objective-C is in the top three technologies to learn. I don't think there is a single C++ programmer (sitting under a rock) that doesn't know that C++ is not cool. It hasn't been cool for over a decade. This "essay" has some sort of anti-lesson in learning about technologies that have peaked. I can understand someone writing this essay in 2005; but if you have been writing C++ all this time, now is probably the best time (relatively speaking). Resource constrained devices are going to be norm in this decade (smart phone, smart sensors etc.). C++ will be one language that will be supported across all these. At the high end, servers will move from python/Java to C++ to squeeze even more operational savings. Also, becoming a sysadmin (RHCE) in addition to learning about python and RoR and Objective-C. I mean, it doesn't even make sense ...