> What there are _not_ are reasons for new development to cling to > languages which make flawed constructs easy for the individual > programmer to misuse.
Certainly there are - or people wouldn't be doing it. Whether you or I think those reasons are good reasons is another question. (Some of the most obviously plausible: it's what the programmers know; it's what the target sytem supports; it's necessary to interface to some externally-supplied libraries....) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B