Roy Smith wrote: > Look at what happened to C when it mutated into C++. In isolation, most of > the features of C++ seem like good ideas. Taken together, it's a huge > hairy mess that most people only understand increasingly larger subsets of. > Fred Brooks called it the second system syndrome.
If you read "The Design and Evolution of C++" by Stroustrupp, you can see how most of current C++ is a direct result of its initial design requirements, not an aglomeration of features, each of which is a "good idea." I take from the resulting big hairy mess that the design goals themselves are at fault for the big hairy mess. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
