You will be forced to maintain poorly written C++ for the rest of your days.

Quote from some guy at Continental. "It wasn't a memory leak, it was a memory faucet!"

The nice thing about C++ is that memory leaks are easy to fix. Valgrind is a pretty bad-ass tool.

In garbage collected languages leaks can be very hard to track down. And they do happen from time to time.

you will live a better life!