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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Type system protocols rest atop fundamental data
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

> You make your own choice, of course, and have your own preferences - but
> C++ is a massively popular language (and Bjarne /does/ want it),

I get the feeling the only bits that Bjarne doesn't like are
C-compatibility warts (C-style casts, some of the more broken bits of
the C standard library - i.e. various str*() functions, C-style arrays)