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by pjc50 3087 days ago
Your "avoiding the complexity" in fact turns into its mirror image: in order to ensure sane behaviour, you have to have a preamble to avoid inheriting things you don't want. This results in people writing things like http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/threads-and-fork-think-t... : the list of things you have to remember not to use in order to use the "elegant" API.