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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 12:18:27 +1100
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On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Peter Cacioppi
<peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> wrote:
> In general, I liked all the C++ additions a lot. I really liked the STL. But I don't know what Bjarne was thinking with the streams.

It does look cool on paper. You can "see" the flow of data.
Everything's type-safe - unlike C's scanf family (though, again,
sscanf in a high level language can get around that problem). The only
problem is, it doesn't actually help much in code. It's snazzy but not
all that useful.

ChrisA