>Prelude was a given...
Hmm, I think you guys give me too much credit.

>is she a she now?
It depends on whom you ask. I'm sure that not a few people here see me as a dude.

>We had someone here that knew Stroustrup. He'd die to enter this thread.
That would be Dean. He's...indisposed at the moment and won't be joining the discussion. But his "knowing" Stroustrup was limited to email exchanges, and it's common knowledge that Bjarne Stroustrup is good about answering his email.

>Stroustrup??? What did he ever do to a standard C++ library implementation?
Save it from every crap proposal that crossed his desk?