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Rumor has it that Michael B. Brutman may have mentioned these words: When I refer to C++ bloat, this is actually what I talk about - not the 'bloat' of the final code, that depends on the programmer, not the language.[1] To me, it's hard enough to keep everything straight (and readable) in C... and if C++ was *just basic classes* I could prolly wrap my head around that enough to be comfortable. However, the polymorphism[2] and operator overloading makes it (IMHO, of course) harder to discern what others are doing with the code... Now, I know just enough C to be dangerous, and hadn't touched C++ until a few weeks ago, as I had to learn enough to tutor 2 college students for one of their courses... ;-) Altho now that I understand C++'s constructors & destructors a [very] little better, I might be able to wrap my brain around Python's OO stuff a little more easily... But at least OO isn't required there, either. I seriously doubt I'm as old chronologically as you, but as they say: You're only as old as you feel... so I must be pushin' about 80. ;-) So I guess I'm an "old fogie Jr." ;-) Prost, and Frueliche Weinachten! Roger "Merch" Merchberger [1] well, except PHP, but that's another thread; one that's best left alone... [2] Now, if you get a "Wand of Polymorph" in Rogue, those are handy rascals, indeed. ;-) -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me zmerch at 30below.com. | SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers