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From: jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++ is too complex!!!
Message-ID: <4194@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 88 18:33:08 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<David Smyth and apparently one or two other people on the net seem to think 
that C++ is too complex.  Compared to what?  My suggestion to these people is 
to try to learn Russian (2 forms of all verbs, 100  forms of all motion verbs, 
6 declension cases etc. etc.).  Afterwards, the marvelous simplicity of C++ 
shall be apparent to them.>

If computers understood Russian, I would gladly learn it rather than use C++ 
(1/2 :-)!  Let's compare apples to oranges, here!  Give me a computer that is 
capable of dealing with the marvelous range of expression inherent in natural 
language, and I'll even forsake Smalltalk.

(How do you say, "I want the window here, and I want it to display the P/E 
ratio of the top 50 NASDAQ stocks in a scatter-plot" in Russian?)

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