"Dialog" - as a VERB! "I've been dialoging with middle management about requirements for..." Just a way to replace the verb "talk" with something pompous, self-important, clueless...

I still use C++. My projects have to maintain a "common code base" across UNIX, Linux, and Win32 (and Win64...), and Java is out of the question, for various reasons (like I hate it...) There are some platform-specific modules, etc., but as much as possible is "vanilla" C++ objects.