On 2011-12-22, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >> C++ is a vast, complex, and dangerous language -- and industry >> doesn't seem to be willing to limit itself to using the seven >> people on the planet who understand it. > >> I'm only half joking... :) > > Half joking, indeed. I happen to know for a fact that there > are *fourteen* people on the planet who understand it.
One of its greatest contributions to computer science were Glassbarrow's C++ puzzles. They likely couldn't have been as challenging in any other language. ;) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
