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[Chad J]

Andrei Khropov wrote:
> 
> There're different approaches possible:
> 
> 1) Minimalistic C/C++ like - std lib contains only small set of necessary
> things. Everything else is available through 3rd party libs.
> 
> 2) Maximalistic Java/.NET like - std lib contains lots of stuff.
> 

This has always been bugging me.  What are the reasons to do a 
minimalistic lib, besides us not having to write so much stuff?