Thomas A Petersen <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> said:
>I am a strong believer in C++ and think it has a place in the universe. 
>
Yup. On the business end of a black hole ;-)

(sorry, couldn't resist)

>I
>have done various database, user interface, graphics, utility, and sound
>processing using various libraries.
>
Personally, the only really succesful project I ever did with C++ was a
device driver (an MS-DOS Xenix filesystem device driver, to be precise).
Somehow, C++ was a perfect fit for that sort of problem. I think it's
nice for kernels etcetera, as long as you carefully steer around lots of
the bloated features. 

Just like C, C++ is a good low-level language. Just like C, C++'s
problems really start when you want to (ab)use it for high level
stuff...

>Thanks for reading this far and I hope this gives you some ideas.
>
Let C++ programmers read http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2950 as well
:-)


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