begin  quoting Darren New as of Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:49:36AM -0800:
[snip]
> The web isn't littered with web browsers *at all*, let alone in 
> different languages.

Um... 

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/21/web-browsers-you-have-never-heard-of/

[snip]
> I would be very surprised to discover that NASDAQ is written in C++.

I watched a medical billing system get rewritten from COBOL to C++. The
owner of the company vowed "never again".

> So what are the advantages of C++ over, say, Ada 95?

It has symbols in the name. That's sexy.

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