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From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ and waitresses (long)
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Date: 24 May 91 19:57:19 GMT
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schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>brian@babbage.csus.edu (Brian Witt) writes:
>   and Ada is too big, you choose C++. 
>I dispute this.  C++ has at least as much junk as Ada.  More
>complicated junk, too.  If you include standard libraries in the
>count, size is certainly a wash.

Could you elaborate? I would like a better definition of "junk" than
is available above. Which of the following is junk?:

- Strong typing
- Separation of specification from implementation
- Opaque types
- Genericity
- Exception handling
- Namespace control/selective visibility
- Overloading
- Concurrency
- Language standardization
- Compiler validation
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