CRAP - Common Reusable Automatic Program Two different environments: Basic CRAP - for quick & dirty solutions Serious CRAP - for when CRAP needs to work reliably

They didn't want Windows 9 < OS X, so they made Windows 10 == OS X.

@Reese - Very well stated, and I agree with your philosophy :) Out of curiosity, what have you found to be the most interesting languages?

Folks, almost nobody wants to pay the costs + margin for mobile smart hardware (phone or tablet) anymore, the exception being the iPad fanatics. It all must be subsidized somehow. Either with the mobile carrier (phones) or with the app store, or with both. It's much easier to pull $500 out of someone's pocket $1 at a time over a couple of years than to do it all at once. The days of paying several hundred up front for technology that is obsolete in a couple of years is gone by. Microsoft has figured that out, and it's most likely why they're looking at a $199 price point for the Surface tablet. They'll sell like hotcakes. And they'll hope to make it up with all those wonderful $0.99 apps out there that millions of customers will pay for.