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In article <l6smdpINNjmc@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
|Those people that I know who dislike C++, dislike it because they
|believe it contains too many features (that cannot now be removed).

I am one of the people who thinks C++ has too many "features" --
[other people including myself would say "bugs"] 

However, some of the these features/bugs CAN be successfully removed.

One of the "features" that I have formally proposed be removed is the
special case language preventing a few operators from being overloaded.
Its much easier to teach, program, remember, the language etc, if there
isn't a plethora of special case restrictions in the language.

If the language is implemented in an "orthogonal" manner [to the greatest
extent possible] then people can simply learn general rules, they do not
have to remember all these special cases.

People keep trying to argue against making the language orthogonal, people
keep arguing that I need to "prove" the benefits of trying to make the 
langauge orthogonal.  This continues to amaze me.  Rather, I would expect
that a reasonable group of people would insist that anyone who wants to 
defend special cases in the language would be required to show a great
burden of proof.  Each of those special cases represents an additional
"feature" that C++ programers have to try to learn, remember, and continually
program around.