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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
	Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
Subject: Re: C vs C++
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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 03:26 pm, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > Why are you being so sarcastic? Everyone here is assuming that it's
> > harder to write C++ code, so you should only use it if necessary. It
> > isn't necessary to use it for something like a daemon.
>
> Because that underlying assumption is false, and I'm making
> fun of it.

Reality check:  How can you possibly contend that it is no more difficult to 
write code in a language which *so* much more massive?

And one, I might add, which is intentionally UNdesigned.

C++ is a language which I really liked until I really started to learn about 
it.

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