VC++ express question

Why so different from VC++ 6? =( Microsoft broke my heart.

Well it's generally considered a bad practice to have C with classes, even though that's all what we want.  You can mimic the constructor and destructor idea in C with free functions. See http//en.wikiboo/... for an example.

>>11,18 same person
I see your point #15, but maybe I should have just wrote that it's better to not mix C & C++ together if you can help it. For instance one of the reasons to prefer streams over printf is that you replace a runtime error with one at compile-time. That seems to be the biggest reason why people want to mix C & C++ anyway, which is just stupid and lazy most of the time. I have no issues with anything else.