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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator
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* Martin Krischik:

>> Implicit instantiation of templates, for example.  Low-overhead
>> destructors, parameterized exceptions and multiple inheritance come to
>> my mind, too.  And there is wild pointer arithmetic, of course.
>
> After 10 years of C++ I am unsure if those fine features really make
> programming any easier.

RAII (which really needs cheap destructors in some cases) does make
programming easier.  The rest, well -- it depends.  Pointer arithmetic
has no place except in allocators (or some high-performance numerical
code), but parameterized exceptions are neat, and template
metaprogramming can be quite helpful, too.

Of course, C++ has also a fair number of truly obnoxious properties.