[BradAMiller]

The question was, as you noticed, one of familiarity with C++. One could write the entire program using C syntax except for creating and invoking methods on objects. The syntax isn't a huge stretch from what a C programmer would know, but we're trying to be very sensitive about forcing people to learn a whole bunch of new stuff in this transition year. I was trying to get a feel if the community would be up in arms over being forced to use those few pieces of C++ syntax.

Brad Miller