Don't let Raymond hear you look up paths this way.

I hope your script doesn't run on a corporate network where they remap those paths! There is a proper API to look up these directories (and has been since Win98 or so). 

Doesn't C++ allocate classes with virtual functions, similar to this?

class show_me_the_money
{
private:
        char string_read_from_user_input[8];
public:
        virtual uint64_t money_func(int show_me);
};

I have to endure the horrible mess that is Eclipse when programming C++ under Linux at work.

Want to examine an STL object? Here look at the bits under the hood, but you can't see your data.
Want to lock up everything if you have a breakpoint set on a non-existent code line?

VS makes it soo much easier to view (and change) objects. Edit & continue is extremely useful. The next (free) version comes with static analysis tools.

I've recently had to modify a kernel driver for Linux. I ended up writing a framework and wrote and tested it under Windows because Linux doesn't give you any help debugging drivers unless you have a serial port (which the target doesn't).

From the documentaries I watched on Discovery, the reason supersonic travel isn't here for the masses is because Boeing couldn't catch up with Concorde. Boeing persuaded Congress that overland supersonic flight broke windows and killed cattle so they banned flights over American soil. Other governments caved in as well. This effectively meant that the only route possible was over the Atlantic. Concorde2 would have carried more passengers further and more efficiently, but it was canned because there was no where to fly to.

Here in the UK at least, the local library is free, and you can get (almost) any book delivered there for free (used to be 30p I think!).
Although my library is very small (probably 1000 books), the staff are more than helpful and will be able to get the book you want from some other library.
I haven't bought a book for years. What's the point when a good quality, hardbacked version can be borrowed for free.

Have I said free enough :-)