Don wrote:
Well, if you ask the question "what's C++'s biggest mistake?" it's much more difficult. C++'s failure to specify the ABI is enough of a reason to use C instead, I reckon. It think it's an appalling, inexcusable mistake -- it guaranteed compiled libraries 20 years later would use extern(C), not extern(C++). And that's not the worst C++ mistake.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with C++'s biggest mistake. Perhaps it was failing to address the array => pointer conversion.
