Because of my excitement I almost jumped into academia, for PL research. Then, I realized that I have a family to feed :) and after all, I never really wanted t

Because of my excitement I almost jumped into academia, for PL research. Then, I realized that I have a family to feed :) and after all, I never really wanted to become a teacher/professor. As for the "real world" side - I'm in the domain where C++ is still the best tool - good enough high-level constructs (but could be better, of course, we're slowly moving toward it) along with low-level stuff and determinism.