I have been working with computers since the early 80s when my initial research was done in assembly on a pdp/11. It has been a fun ride, working on VAX, SUN, IBM using a variety of programming languages and technologies. But I never dreamed that C and C++ would still be two of the most popular development languages after thirty years. I am fascinated by the resurgence of C++, the advances in the language starting with C++-11 have improved development time so much that it is almost on a par with the scripting languages but with the performance and type safety of C++. These are interesting times.