Edward C++Hands
Every time I read a "scathing" attack on C/C++ for being the worst language the author ever heard of, I hear Jack Sparrow's reply in my head "Ahh... but you <i>have</i> heard of me".<p>Somehow despite the litany of crippling deficiencies, C/C++ have managed to be the foundation of every piece of technology a consumer or a computer professional will ever touch in their daily life. But yeah, other than that, we should all be using.. oh, I don't know, scala or haskell or something like that.