If you and your employer are in the USA, then the pension plan is likely guaranteed by the US government insured PBGC (Pension Benefit Guarantee Company). PBGC pays if your employer's plan fails for some reason (underfunded, etc.). Your company pays a percentage of the retirement plan each year into the PBGC insurance fund. PBGC has limits to yearly payouts, IIRC capped about $48k/year. Do a google search on PBGC. -- Tom

Sadly, had a boss one time that changed my code from using an array and a loop_index to code that looks like the example. Perhaps we were being paid per line of source code generated?

For 'safety' you should copyright your source code, then take the additional step of registering it with the government ($). You no longer have to send in the source to secure copyright, but if you do then any claims of infringement could be easier to prove. IANAL, consult an attorney. I've published GPL'd source, and while not beautiful code, did receive lots of comments. Many of the comments were not accurate or articulate, but one or two people sent in *really* helpful suggestions. And that alone was enough value for me to release the source.

It seems like cool tool ... but it got to the point that merely highlighting a couple lines of code in the editor would cause the IDE to stop responding for ~30 seconds. Since one highlights text virtually all the time, this was unbearable, and it was necessary to remove it.