Hallo David!

 GW>>btw, recommended RAM according to a follow up post was 128 Meg!!!!!

 DN> What??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????
 DN> But C/C++ produces the leanest, meanest object code possib...

EMX 0.9d runs on 8MB machines (or even less, if it has to be), and also is
a state of the art C++ compiler which has been written in C itself.
Together with the Ressrouce Workshop from Borland, which also runs on 8MB
machines, it is not too hard to create GUI applications with it, either.

I think it is possible to create bloated programs in any programming
language, so the fact that IBM VAC++ is bloated does not say anything about
the quality of the language.

I think it is just that "C++" is "hip", so everybody
starts learning C++, and so C++ has the most "unexperienced"
programmers, so that it is natural, that quite a lot of C++ programs do not
behave too well ...

Admittedly, C++ makes it very easy to create bloated programs for
unexperienced programmers ...

Viele Gr��e,
Tobias

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