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From: Mike Sieweke <msieweke@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
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"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.

> I actually wrote a longish rebuttal to that document. I could post it 
> somewhere if people care.

I would be interested to read your rebuttal.


-- Mike Sieweke
-- "Just a bit of harmless brain alteration, that's all..."