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@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ anyway, like many higher level applications in regular Linux distros.
 There's a few exceptions: Mozilla is written in C++ and eToys is written
 in SmallTalk.  I don't know about TamTam.
 
+'''rasky:''' in fact, with the raise of scripting languages and fully-featured
+platforms (like Java's), using C++ for doing almost *anything* is the wrong
+choice. As you said, system programming wants C for several good reasons, and
+almost anything else can be done in scripting language. I think one last thing
+that C++ is still good today at is high-performance libraries (eg: math
+libraries), where you don't want to use C and you need a lot of performance.
+But C++ is feeling more and more like a dead horse...
 
 === Wed, 13th ===