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rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin) writes:

>MKK2@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>
>>One thing that makes Obj-C "better" is that it lacks a large number of features
>>that C++ has but doesn't need.  Computer science has been fighting the
>>battle for a long time.  Should a language offer every possible feature,
>>or should it offer a slimmed down subset of just enough features?
>
>I am sure that you could find many C++ programmers who would agree
>that the language is complex, and that there are features that could
>be removed.  I doubt you could get them all to agree on which features
>to remove.

There is one feature that C++ has that causes 90% of it's problems -
C compatability. Unfortunately this is the last feature that people are
willing to abandon. 1/2 :-)

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