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Subject: Re: [9fans] c++
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:58:28PM -0500, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
>=20
> Irony (from the Ancient Greek ???????? eir?ne=EDa, meaning dissimulatio=
n
> or feigned ignorance)[1] is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or
> situation in which there is an incongruity between the literal and the
> implied meaning.=20

Do you mean that C++ is irony because of the discrepancy between what
you wrote and what you get?

--=20
        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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