AR> For personal and practical reasons I say it is time to 
 AR> merge the echoes. The total traffic is less than what 
 AR> it was in the C_echo alone a year ago. And some ten 
 AR> percent or so of the traffic in C_plusplus actually belongs here.
 AR> OTOH, the people opposing the merge have a good point: 
 AR> C and C++ _are_ distinct languages. Even though C++ is 
 AR> an (improper) superset of C.
And then there is the certain high-level aspect of OO-design which would "go 
over the head" of many of the new C programmers.  Then again, there's not a 
lot of that going on anymore.  :-/  I just can't decide for myself which way 
is better.
My kingdom for a good, active Java echo!  :-)
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