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porco@stat.Berkeley.EDU (Travis C. Porco) wrote:

>I'd rather spend what time and imagination I have on the problem at hand, 
>freed from trying to understand the arcana of a language as needlessly
>complex as C++.

There is nothing that forces you to use the features you don't understand nor 
can master. Once you understand and master the language (any language),
you will call for more features, since you will think the language is too
simple.
That's what happened to Smalltalk. It is regarded to be simple and people are
calling for more power now. In time being, when they don't get the desired power

from Smalltallk, they fake it using C++. 


 Vlastimil Adamovsky
 ** C++ and Smalltalk consultant **
 * http://www.stepweb.com *

