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	Yes,  it's an excellent read.  I'm about half way through it and
currently feel it is my duty to fuel this intellectual discussion
beyond,  "Don't bother with C.  C++ is all you need.  I never learned
C,  who needs it."  I mean,  I was always taught that when you make
a statement,  you at least make an attempt to back it up with a 
convincing argument.


Karl Wood (karl) wrote:
: Anyone following this discussion could do worse than read Bjarne Stroustrup's
: _The Design and Evolution of C++_ ISBN 0-201-54330-3, section 1.3, pages 23-25.

: I don't want to start a Bjarne Stroustrup cult or anything, but if it were
: not for copyright I'd reproduce it here. I would paraphrase it by saying it
: is about being humble when having an opinion on a subject you know a lot
: about.

: My interest is in persuading C people to at least give C++ a try, which seems
: reasonable nowadays when marketing has tended to make a particular company's
: C and C++ compilers into the same product so there's no financial obstruction.

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