Paul Rudin paul.nospam at rudin.co.uk
Thu Aug 5 07:20:14 EDT 2010

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:

> In message <roy-6BCFA7.22564104082010 at news.panix.com>, Roy Smith wrote:
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>> C++, for all its flaws, had one powerful feature which made it very
>> popular.  It is a superset of C.
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> Actually, it never was.

Wondering off topic a bit - I am reminded of something I once read in
some MS blurb... it described something as an "extended subset" of some
standard or another. (Think about it :))

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