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   From: daniel@me.invalid   
      
   In article , Andrew wrote:   
   > So what do people think will keep C++ going?   
      
   In a word: tools.   
      
   In the hands of a skilled programmer C++ is a more powerful language   
   than C, and it will always have its following, but many programmers are   
   tempted away to other languages because the support available from code   
   generators, code browsing and analysis tools, smart editors,   
   refactoring tools, and the like is better in those languages.   
      
   Tool support of that kind is harder to achieve in C++ than in, say,   
   Java or C# because the language is harder to parse, but if tool support   
   for C++ were as good as that for other languages I think many more   
   programmers would pick it as their language of first choice.   
      
   C++11 doesn't make the parsing difficulties any easier, unfortunately.   
      
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     Daniel.   
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