On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:45:30 +0000, Blumf wrote:

> C++ has the advantage of being backwards compatible with C, so developers
> didn't have to rewrite all their code just to take advantage of C++'s new
> features.

Which is what many people do - they use C++ compilers, but they keep
writing C code developing systems for which C is not all that well suited.
My point is that just about any other OO language out there is probably
better than C++, and the difficulty associated with transitioning from
a procedural way of doing things to the OO one dwarfs the difficulties in
learning a new programming language syntax.