This post could have been reduced to: I am too set in my ways and stubborn to learn a new generation of programming languages and the benefits that they offer. You can enjoy your pointers and manual memory management all you want, but you won't be writing any enterprise level web systems with them. And that's exactly the point, isn't it? Use the tool that works best for the job. If you can't see the benefits of a particular tool, that does not indicate that there aren't any; it only indicates that you are unable to recognize them.

You're not a very good programmer are you? :doh: