What kind of things, barring coding on Haskell-less platforms and library interfaces would you choose to do in C++? I'm asking 'cos I'm learning C++ and can't get the proper motivation to do any program I can think of in it: If I need abstraction, I'm thinking Haskell or Scheme, and if I'm thinking performance, C itself more than suffices. Plus template programming makes me shudder because of its atrocities against clear and straightforward FP, but that's a different matter. Coming to think of it, a compiler from a clean syntax to C++ templates sounds like a fun project... which I'd do in Haskell. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.