On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Ewan Birney wrote: > Yes - we are rolling our own C++ here. Annoying - yes - but so is > having a piece of code that only works on redhat linux 5.2.... I think you're overdoing the advocacy here. We've already agreed on C... Having said that, C++ works on a lot more platforms than just RedHat. it and java are the languages of choice in the software industry. Ian