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Subject: Re: [9fans] g++
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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:56:23 -0400
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In some recent (non-Plan 9) programming I've used C++.  The STL makes it
a slam-dunk decision.  It's just wrong to use char* instead of string,
or writing yet another hand coded container instead of just typing
map<string,int> or vector<foo>.  Any language without syntactically
convenient generics and a standard set of containers is just too painful
to use, in general.