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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel vs. C++
Summary: Remember when...
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Date: 7 Jun 89 14:46:33 GMT
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Various folks have talked about the sizes of linked eiffel and c++
programs.  It all sounds very much like the debate of using or not
using stdio because of the size overhead.  For more built-in features
and libraries, we must pay a price.  [[insert comment about "the
more things change...." here]]

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