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>3. Someone had too much time at apple, becouse the C++ found
>    there doesn't apparently contain anything that couldn't
>    be expressed without any pain in plain C with structs containing
>    function pointers ;-).

Hehe, right :) Though they actually limit the C++ usage in the kernel
to a kind of "embedded C++", that is without multiple inheritance, RTTI
or exceptions. C++ is the main reason why I call it "bloated".

Ben.


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