Re: safe strcpy()?

mlh@zip.com.au wrote:

>Indeed. What we want is a language compatible with
C++ is unmitigated evil. The safety of C, and the performance of Smalltalk :-(

People who need the safety and OOP abstractions of C++ should use Java (or C# if you prefer): they have no business using a dangerous weapon like C or C++. Even people skilled at writing C code should use a safer language unless they *need* the speed and agility of C.

People who need greater performance than Java should use C, because C++ imposes such bloat. The abstraction of object oriented design and object oriented programming can be done just fine without C++'s bloat: in Ye Olde Dayes, it was called "abstract data structures."  

There is no middle ground for C++. Everyone should just stop using it.

IMNSFHO, of course :-)

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