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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> It's a pity that the evil wasn't destroyed or fixed
> in the design of C++.

That would have taken the "C" out of C++. It might have
made for a better language, but no one would have used it.
Like Ada :-)

> Maybe a C++ source code checker (like 'lint') could prohibit the evil(?)
 > That way, people would be forced out of old C habits.

Never happen.