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From: "Chuck" <chuckmacdonald@nospam.me>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
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Mike Sieweke wrote:
> "Peter C. Chapin" wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Mike Sieweke wrote:
>>
>>> The flaws in C++ are too numerous for a newsgroup posting.
>>> A bullet list would run into several pages.
>>>
>>> You should read Ian Joyner's critique:
>>> http://www.zechweb.de/Joyners_cpp_critique/
>>
>> I have a lot of problems with that critique. I wouldn't recommend it
>> to anyone. I don't think the author really understands C++ and thus
>> is attacking a straw man created in his own mind.
>
> It's a really long paper (about 60 pages of text), and
> it covers a lot of ground.  To say he attacks a single
> straw man grossly oversimplifies the critique.

Could not one abstract into one "class", all the C++ gurus of 
comp.lang.c++ ?