> However I dunno if I would go as far as to call Java "C++ with cleaner > syntax". While Java is syntactically like C++, developing with it is > nothing like developing with C++. The garbage collection, runtime metadata, > standard class library, modern Java IDEs, etc make it a whole different > experience. A little cleanup goes a long way. Java took the best concepts from C++, refined them, and got rid of all the C baggage. To hell with having to worry about whats a pointer to what, (in Java, its always a pointer to an object!) to hell with freeing mallocs, (GC!) and to hell with headers and the preprocessor! (A C solution to encapsulation and namespacing, no longer needed...) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list