I have never really mastered what C++ really is. It’s an overly complex beast as far as I am concerend. Neither could I ever get streams/STL right nor hever ever I really worked on a real big C++ project (C is a different story). During the course of the prsent quater I went through a course which covered lots of advanced C++ and OOP topics. Needless to say after trying my best I still was not able to grasp most of them. Perhpas is psycological, that I have this fear that I would never be able to learn C++ for the rest of my life.
But so what? I can always persue a different path. I don’t really need to be an expert in DataStructures or Algorithms or any thing to do with Realtime systems (all of the things which I was once very interested in). I am also not very fond of ‘Compilers’ and ‘Language Theory’ as a subject. I am actually not interested in Computer Science as such any more, but more into Business and Legal aspects of IT. There are some CS areas (AI/Speech Interaction) which still have some attraction for me but probably not to the extent that I would be doing any thing serious (in C++).
I will try to console my self by posting links to articles from the web which say that C++ is a dying language, disregarding any Bias 
Edit:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread8386.html
http://www.softwarefrontier.com/2006/06/c-is-dying.html
http://4thmouse.com/index.php/2008/02/17/why-c-is-a-dying-language/ (he is a ‘Rocket Scientist’)
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=61112
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/09/1152215&tid=156&tid=8
