that give you only the illusion of OOP and all the tempting powers of C (with all the security problems that come with it). As a really good programmer I know once said about C++: it gives you just enough rope to do a really good job hanging yourself.

No, really! I started my life as a programmer doing C and later C++. I love it, really I do! But the facts are the facts! C would rule the earth if programmers were infallible, always 1337 and always mindful. But even the best are not always that way, and the best are few and far between.

here is where I duck and run for the door, swaddled with asbestos blankets.

DL [beating a hasty exit]