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From: leech@threonine.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: What C++ Compiler should I buy?
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Date: 14 Nov 90 19:54:05 GMT
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In article <13154@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>, vaughan@mcc.com (Paul Vaughan) writes:
|>   From: leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
|>	   You can quibble over terminology, but the fact is that lack of the
|>   iostream package makes G++ useless for many applications, such as mine. In
|>   terms of portability, the standard library is part of the language.
|>No, but it is an interesting way of locking in customers.

	If G++ did not support multiple inheritance, would you also
consider that an 'interesting way of locking in customers' on AT&T's
part as well?