I'll try to stop posting links to forum discussions (and posting exclusively on programming for that matter), but have a read of (as one posted aptly called it) "the most polite flamewar I've ever read". I'm ashamed that it was only recently that I knew what the RAII idiom; reading GameDev just makes me realize how little effort I've made these last few years to really learn anything new in the field of software. Even last year I wrote a post heralding my insane printing of a 500-odd page book on Lisp. It still remains unread, and lies quietly in my cupboard. I think it's just about time for me to stop thinking and start learning.