From Joelonsoftware 
(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html):

"Amusingly, the history of the evolution of C++ over time can be 
described as a history of trying to plug the leaks in the string 
abstraction. Why they couldn't just add a native string class to the 
language itself eludes me at the moment."

:)

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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