Well that's just knit picking, isn't it?

Warning: Sense of humour bypass detected[^]

Maximisation of ROI through n-tier component technology throughout the distributed heterogenous client-server environment

There are many people alive today whose wages were trousered by state governments to be "invested for the future benefit of the worker", no benefits were ever forthcoming, the governments are still arguing the toss over what fraction of what they trousered they will give back as compensation - the mind boggles That's every single one of us - right now - paying tax and "national insurance" for a worthless state pension that we'll probably not live long enough to be eligible to claim :mad:

Ah, Borland. I started on Turbo Pascal & Later Turbo C back in the late '80s / early '90s. Not only was the Borland compiler fast, it was much more up-to-date supporting the latest language features of the time (e.g. structured exception handling & templates - and a built-in inline assembler - wahey!). The IDE was the best by a mile. Of course, Microsoft isn't one to miss a trick. Didn't they lure over the best 'n' brightest from Borland? Enter one Mr. Anders Hejlsberg, creator of Turbo Pascal & Delphi, later to be principal designer of the C# language. No wonder it's such a bloody good language - there's decades of experience behind it. Call me a madman, but I really like VS2008. Since the express editions are basically given away for free, I can't see anything competing with it, or we'd all be using Eclipse. That said, I'd kill for a decent permissively licenced IDE for the awesome D language (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html) or Common Lisp & Scheme.