"go native." In other words, if the OS was written in C, write your application in C, if the OS was written in C++, write your application in C++, etc...

This mantra is significantly oversimplistic. Ask him what language should be used for writing apps for VMS. Then, if he manages to cough up any kind of answer at all, ask him what language should be used to write an application that by virtue of its problem domain needs to be deployed on multiple different types of OSes and multiple different hardware architectures. Say that the exact list of necessary platforms will change on a per-customer basis.

sub H{$_=shift;while($_){$c=0;while(s/^2//){$c++;}s/^4//;$
v.=(' ','|','_',"\n",'\\','/')[$c]}$v}sub A{$_=shift;while
($_){$d=hex chop;for(1..4){$pl.=($d%2)?4:2;$d>>=1}}$pl}$H=
"16f6da116f6db14b4b0906c4f324";print H(A($H)) # -- jonadab
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