I boggled when I started reading Tom Yager's latest column - "Reviving Native Traditions". He's out there, but at least I know why he still thinks that the iTanium has a future - he's pushing for a resurgence of C++ (et.al.):

Even though it tags me as a graybeard, I have a firm belief that the welcome trend toward slower, cooler, more power efficient systems, as well as powerful converged mobile devices, requires nosing away from VB, Java, and .Net and back toward software that compiles from an editor down to byte patterns that match a target CPU’s unique, or native, machine language. One finds the antithesis of Java and .Net in C, C++, and Objective-C, the most popular programming languages that compile down to native code.

Yes, please pass me more buffer overflows now. Yeah, I know there are techniques to avoid them, and I know that "everyone" should know them. I think the history of the last decade shows that far too many people don't care - even at major vendors. System level sandboxing (something he mentions later in the column) is a great idea - and far better than the Java theory on that - but having an application take down an OS sandbox, while less bad than taking down the whole system, is still bad.

Heck, his own magazine contradicts him in the same issue.