Arrogance? Come on, it's a rant. Cut him some slack. Other than that, I agress with pretty much everything you said. It's easy to forget how reliant we are on

Arrogance? Come on, it's a rant. Cut him some slack. Other than that, I agress with pretty much everything you said. It's easy to forget how reliant we are on things like industrial-strength GC, multithreading and JIT and how young those things really are.