> (1) Ridiculous - if you need segfault protection, you're a bad programmer. Let's be honest, you don't segfault unless you're doing something idiotic. I've not segfaulted in the past 8 years in anything but assembly.

So let me get this straight. Is your position that Google's Chrome developers (just to name one project) are idiots? You can't hold your opinion without believing that Google, and in fact pretty much every other company that develops C++ developers, hires mostly idiots.