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On 12/07/2014 12:34, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> This joke is bad.  The C++ version is worse in every way.

I concur with everything you have said in your message. Moral of story: 
it is very, very easy to introduce bloat using C++, and using a higher 
level language does not automatically lead to better code quality.