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In article <x7vu1wd7gcm.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>, Simon Wright says...
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>Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:
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>> One of the main objections to the BC's was that it was way too
>> complicated to use, compared with what the STL does for C users.
>
>Your objection was that it is difficult for beginners to "get" the
>BCs, and I don't disagree. However, once you've done it a couple of
>times it's not so bad.

I did state that, but not as an objection. I would actually kind of like to see
Booch in the standard, truth be known.

>I expect it takes a while to know what you're doing with the STL, too.

Perhaps, but it is quite easy to make yourself a STL list (or vector or
whatever) type and start using it without knowing precicely what is going on. It
just involves a single instantiation of one parameter (the element type) in one
template. 

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