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"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
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>
> Lots of programmers travel on bad or misleading information about
> programming languages. Most of them are not exactly Rocket Scientists
> (I'll be glad to help them in that respect! :-) and all they know is
> what they see in their day-to-day work with one specific implementation
> of a language. (Experiment: Pick some feature of the MFC that is not
> part of C++ and is unique to MFC. Ask a dozen programmers who use MSVC++
> "Does C++ have feature X?" Bet money most will say "Yes") It is exactly

It is also worth pointing out that if you monitor the c++ newsgroups these
same topics
come up there all the time with people confusing what some particular
implementation
of some language does with what is required or even common in the language.

By the way, Rocket Scientists are no better in this respect then the rest of
the population.
Trust me.