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  1. Path: mics.demon.co.uk!Bill
  2. From: Bill Michell <Bill@mics.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: Why C++ sucks++
  5. Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 00:40:36 +0000
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  16. In article <4f3mqm$dgk@blackice.winternet.com>, Jeff Dege
  17. <jdege@winternet.com> writes
  18. >    Including the fact that shell scripts are almost always the appropriate
  19. >tool for problems of this complexity.
  20. Portability? Whats that?
  21.  
  22. Your 'solution' assumes people are running UNIX. In the real world, 90%
  23. of users are running DOS. Do you care? It seems not...
  24.  
  25. BTW Most C++ compilers support the String class implicitly...
  26.