mlhat_private wrote: >Indeed. What we want is a language compatible with >C but with string handling as a standard part -- luckily >there is such a beast -- C++ ! > C++ is unmitigated evil. The safety of C, and the performance of Smalltalk :-( People who need the safety and OOP abstractions of C++ should use Java (or C# if you prefer): they have no business using a dangerous weapon like C or C++. Even people skilled at writing C code should use a safer language unless they *need* the speed and agility of C. People who need greater performance than Java should use C, because C++ imposes such bloat. The abstraction of object oriented design and object oriented programming can be done just fine without C++'s bloat: in Ye Olde Dayes, it was called "abstract data structures." There is no middle ground for C++. Everyone should just stop using it. IMNSFHO, of course :-) Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html Just say ".Nyet"
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