According to Chris Waters: > C++ is an *excellent* language, in many respects, but it does have > problems. It's huge, tricky, confusing, designed-by-committee, and > rather difficult to use *efficiently* from *other* languages. Well, C++ was designed to be a systems programming language, not an add-on for other tools. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> "When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."