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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> > There is a serious question in my mind whether everyone using C* has
> > done so based on thorough reasoning.
> 
> I can't speak for anyone else, but I use C++ because I love it.

If I were a lawyer sueing somebody for using C++ (which I admit is kind
of silly), I would *love* to hear that statement given under oath! ;-)

Sort of like a civil engineer who builds a bridge that falls down
saying, "I built it out of inferior steel because I love that kind
of steel."  Or the second of the Three Pigs claiming to "love" building
houses out of sticks.

> I am at my current job because I answered an ad which was looking
> for expert C++ programmers, and it sounded (and is) exactly like
> what I wanted. I find the combination of multiple inheritance,
> virtual functions, and automatically instantiated templates to
> result in remarkably concise, expressive, efficient, and typesafe
> code which is moreover a lot of fun to write. It more than makes
> up for the warped C-legacy syntax.

- Bob