Hi Darin,
On 13 Jan 98, 23:19, you wrote to Auke Reitsma
 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
 AR>> 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.
 DM> And then there is the certain high-level aspect of OO-design
 DM> which would "go over the head" of many of the new C programmers.
Hmng ... now really ...
Those aspects also are _very_ useful for C programmers.  A good and true 
OO-design can usually be implemented in C as well as in C++. The latter 
'merely' makes the implementation somewhat 'easier'.
 DM> Then again, there's not a lot of that going on anymore.  :-/
Were it ever ;->
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