Re: Growing stacks in C++

[Paul Eggert]

On 07/23/10 01:02, Hans Aberg wrote:
> I recall Paul wrote the C skeleton, and one reason for not supporting
> compile as C++ is that he did not want to work with C++, in
> addition to being complicated somehow.

Although I contributed to the C skeleton, I am not its original author;
I believe that honor (or dishonor) belongs to Robert Corbett.

But you're right that I run screaming away whenever C++ is mentioned.
>From my (admittedly distant) point of view, every time C++ comes up,
its standard seems to have mutated in some even-more-complex way.
I would prefer someone else to be the C++ expert here, just as I
prefer someone else to be expert in PHP, Cobol, and JCL.