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From: hall@kayak.cis.ohio-state.edu (john hall)
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Subject: Re: Should C++ follow C's footsteps?
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Date: 23 Feb 89 19:27:43 GMT
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In article <2438@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes:
>1) I think most people would agree that a great deal of it is pretty
>crummy (do I presume to much?  does anyone actually like the "for" loop
>syntax?)

I like the C syntax, including the "for" syntax.
What I can't stand is Pascal syntax -> begin/end's drive me
nuts.

My main attraction to C++ is that it has a C subset.  The  
extentions are all very natural, and intuitively obvious to
a good C programmer.

C++ is the better language. ( Better than C, Pascal, Modula 2,
   Ada, or any of those other sissy pinko languages :-). 
At least for what I use it for.

I do agree that most people new to C++ write C programs in C++,
but remember that OOP is a different way of THINKING about
problems.  It takes a while to get used to.