Re: wretched C++ (Was: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper)

[Ben Hanson <benh@cristie.co.uk>]

Thant Tessman wrote:
>         #pragma instantiate B<whatever>
> 
> There were no warnings, and no clues about what I was doing
> wrong.  dynamic_cast just consistently returned zero.
> 
> C++ is *full* of bullshit like this and I've spent way too
> much of my life fighting it.
> 
> -thant

Fair comment. Shoot the compiler writer. (Actually shoot the company who
decided releasing sub-standard product was acceptable!!)

Ben