I know so little about C++, but will always remember Kate Gregory touting "no more double underscores" as a big benefit of C++ in VS2005.
I don't even know where they are used.
But I've had my own underscores to contend with for many years - the line continuation notation for Visual Basic.
Finally, they are going away in VB10. As a developer they are a pain, but they are even worse when you are formatting code for articles and books.
Apparently the final blow to these little suckers was the difficulty they added to writing multi-line LINQ queries and in VB10, the new multi-line lambdas.
Bye bye underscores.
Oh and note that we don't have to add a semi-colon to indicate the true end of a line. ;-)
You can read more on Beth Massi's blog and check out the 22 minute interview she did on Channel 9 with Tyler Whitney on "implicit line continuation" in VB.
For the sentimental, there's a new website to honor the poor jobless underscores. (http://www.unemployedunderscores.com/) Thanks, Beth.
