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In comp.lang.fortran, jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) writes:
>u (Gilbert Chew) writes:
>|> that the C/C++ newsgroup seems to have about
>|> 100 times the traffic of the FORTRAN newsgroup!
>
>If you actually look at those newsgroups, you will find that most of
>the traffic consists of trivial questions and long discussions about
>issues which *should be* well defined and easy to learn/use/describe
>in any really well designed language.  In other words, it's not clear
>whether the volume of traffic in those groups is because of greater
>popularity of the language or because of poorer design.

A third possibility: the concepts of the language are new, and so the
terms "easy to learn/use/describe" are not yet applicable. When we all
understand what virtual methods, templates, overloading, private|protected|
public, friend, class, etc. mean, *then* the issues will be well defined.

Me, I'm just lurking on the C++ fora, tryina figure it out...

Grace & peace, pete
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