From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,28cd155693714664 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 07:26:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!msc1.onvoy!ply1.onvoy!upp1.onvoy!onvoy.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!spool0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0DF19E.5010805@mail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:26:38 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability References: <3D0DE5E2.5010904@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@fixedcost.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1024323999 8959 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26155 Date: 2002-06-17T10:26:38-04:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > There is a serious question in my mind whether everyone using C* has > done so based on thorough reasoning. I can't speak for anyone else, but I use C++ because I love it. I am at my current job because I answered an ad which was looking for expert C++ programmers, and it sounded (and is) exactly like what I wanted. I find the combination of multiple inheritance, virtual functions, and automatically instantiated templates to result in remarkably concise, expressive, efficient, and typesafe code which is moreover a lot of fun to write. It more than makes up for the warped C-legacy syntax.