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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Any interest in making C++ a real superset of ANSI C?
Summary: Another country heard from
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Date: 29 May 89 15:00:13 GMT
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C++ may have evolved from C, but is now a language in it's own
right.  C and it's good (and bad) qualities should be a guideline,
not a straitjacket.  For what one opinion is worth, I say violate
C standards whenever they get in the way.

Steve Simmons         Just another midwestern boy
scs@vax3.iti.org  -- or -- ...!sharkey!itivax!scs
"Think of c++ as an object-oriented assembler..."