From: jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P)
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Subject: Re: C++, complex, etc
Date: 18 May 2000 14:41:01 +0100
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In article <3923B96E DOT 77F5890A AT mtu-net DOT ru>,
Alexei A. Frounze <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> Welcome to C++.  If you don't like languages that are not standardized
>> enough, don't use C++, at least not just yet.
>
>Yup. Very friendly programming language. :))

What's unfriendly about not yet having a standard? Sorry standardizing
isn't quick enough for you. All you have to do is put up with a few quirks
in the different implementations between different compilers.

Can't you do this in C? Or do your complex mathematics another way? I
can't believe you *need* special functions to do the mathematics, although
I can understand them making them easier.

If you don't like C++, then don't use it. But don't go round complaining
about how its current lack of exact standard is a real bummer for you to
have to put up with, because, fundamentally, you don't have to put up with
it.

J-P
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