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In article <942brr$b0t$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, mark_lundquist@my-deja.com writes:

> longer aware of it.  Maybe the vast ocean of C++ programmers really
> *are* that much smarter than me...

Not in language preference :-)

Certainly there are going to be programming tasks where C++ is ideal,
but current usage of compilers labeled C++ is out of proportion to
that small subset.