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[Derek Fountain]

> Good call. I should perhaps have said "general purpose software where
> stability and security with reduced development and audit times is more
> important than maximal performance".

Nah, no one would have read it. ;o)

> Perhaps a good approach sometimes might be to write performance-critical
> parts of apps in lean, fast C or C++ that can be audited more easily,
> and write the bits where functionality, security and development time
> take priority over execution speed in a higher-level language.

Very true, although I've been doing some work with Qt recently. It's a work of 
art. The interfaces and encapsulation are just superb. There's definitely 
more chance of hitting a GUI bug with Qt/C++ than, say, Tcl/Tk (my other 
favoured GUI environment), but probably not as much as you might think.

People who have been exposed to things like MFC and Motif tend to think very 
much like you do, and for good reason. I did Motif work for a couple of years 
and it was a nightmare to keep clean. However, bear in mind things have moved 
on a bit since those days.