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From: djsalomon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Daniel J. Salomon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ disadvantages?
Message-ID: <4631@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 88 01:17:32 GMT
References: <567@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: djsalomon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Daniel J. Salomon)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <567@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> cef@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Charles Fineman) writes:
>                                          ... My question is what
>price does one pay for using C++? ...

We have found two principle disadvantages of using C++ over C.
1) The C++ features not present in C still have serious bugs.
2) Symbolic debuggers do not work well on C++ generated code.