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From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl)
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Subject: Re: asking an object for its type
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Date: 9 Mar 91 04:30:50 GMT
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In article <503efcc0.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski) writes:
>IMHO there are many, many more C programmers looking at C++ as a way to reduce
>their development and maintenance costs than there are Smalltalk programmers
>looking at C++ as a way to turn their protoypes into real products.

Although I am quite biased (coming almost completely from a C/UNIX)
background, I would agree.  Nearly everyone I have spoken to is using
C++ as an improvement to their C work.  And not just the people here at
Purdue, most are just commercial people looking to reduce their
maintenance costs.  That seems to be the real benefit of C++ IMHO.
-- 
Kevin Kuehl
krk@cs.purdue.edu
kuehlkr@mentor.cc.purude.edu