From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F631775.1050700@nospam.com> From: bs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] g++ References: <200309130329.h8D3Tbj15625@augusta.math.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200309130329.h8D3Tbj15625@augusta.math.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:11:17 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3474f0c8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Dan Cross wrote: >>it's a very difficult, tricky, special-case-ridden language that takes taste >>and experience to use well. > > > Thanks. That more eloquently expresses what I was trying to get across. > > Related, one can write useful, relatively clean code by ignoring 90% of > the language. Unfortunately, most people don't do that. > To that extent I use embedded C++ standards in my normal C++ development. It usually stays readable.