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From: brangdon@cix.co.uk (Dave Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing a
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 02:15 +0100 (BST)
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softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote (abridged):
> Note that his argument does not apply to C++ -- most
> C++ programmers only know a subset of the C++ syntax well.

Most compilers only implement a subset of it. I think there is only one 
compiler which claims to fully implement the "export" keyword, and that 
only in the last year or so. There's not much point learning syntax that 
doesn't work :-)

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