Re: [Feature Request?] __key

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

> On Jul 19, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2016-07-20 7:46 GMT+02:00 Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com>:
> 
>> I will note in passing that C++ has been trying to do that for 20+ years
>> with only limited success and only by the creation of a language that rivals
>> PL/1 in complexity (note: C++ fans need not flame me).
> 
> In those days IBM was rather like Microsoft is now, and PL/1 was
> an attempt to create a language that would inveigle IBM users into
> writing software that would run only on their machines.
> 
> (In the unabashed hope of hijacking the thread :-)
> 

PL/1 -> PL/M -> CP/M -> Seattle DOS -> MS-DOS -> Windows -> Windows NT -> … -> Windows 10

What a tangled web we weave.

—Tim