Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > In message <roy-6bcfa7.22564104082...@news.panix.com>, Roy Smith wrote: > >> C++, for all its flaws, had one powerful feature which made it very >> popular. It is a superset of C. > > Actually, it never was.
Wondering off topic a bit - I am reminded of something I once read in some MS blurb... it described something as an "extended subset" of some standard or another. (Think about it :)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list