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Re: Why I love C++ so much.

From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:10:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Why I love C++ so much.
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

Templates, liberally used, are a good way to make code unreadable.

*shrug* Anything can be abused. There's the old legend about the guy who defined a bunch of macros so he could use Pascal (or Fortran, or whatever) syntax to write in C.

I've weighed in on both sides of this issue because no single tool is suited to everything.

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