MS> I program in many languages and I like C for two main reasons:  its
 MS> portability, and because it's so close to the machine, without being
 MS> as verbose as Assembler.  If I don't care what's happening at the
 MS> low levels, then I prefer to use a higher level language that does
 MS> all the tedious housekeeping for me.  With C++ you get the worst of
 MS> both worlds, IMHO.
Funny, that's exactly why I like C++... ;-)  I can jump around from 
abstraction to C's "near-low-level" from one line to the next... In fact, if 
you avoid virtual functions, you get the same type of performance from C++ as 
from C.
But I'm heading off-topic here... ;-)
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