Hi. Just so you're clear, the term "Hacker" used here is used in the "programming subculture" sense, not in the "security breaker" sense.

Please see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subculture...

I have heard that most of the rich Muslims in India, and many middle-class ones, migrated to Pakistan in 1947. But among the poor, only a small number were able to migrate. As a result, in the post-Independence India, a disproportionately large number of Muslims were poor. However, I believe this is only true for areas near the border. For people who lived far away from the border, it was difficult to emigrate, and so most of the stayed put. For example, Azim Premji, India's richest Muslim, is from Hyderabad, which is far from the India-Pakistan border.

However, it is also true that there is some discrimination against Muslims in India. I've seen it first-hand (I'm nominally a Hindu). However, you probably hear an exaggerated version of it in Pakistan. And, we non-muslim Indians also discriminate against each other: rich vs poor, north Indians vs south Indians, native people of a state vs people from out-of-state, etc. So, the experience is not unique to Muslims.

As macavity23 said (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766974), C++ has certain strengths, and because of that, I think it will be around for a long, long time.

But at the same time, developers will prefer working in higher-level (more productive) languages whenever possible.

So, IMHO, C++ is a language of the future, not the language of the future.