It was late when i wrote the original post on this so i will put more
detail in it now.

The EC++ has the following features eleiminated:

multiple inheritance
virtual base classes
templates
run time-type indentification
namespaces
exceptions
mutable specifiers

The article staes multiple inheritance, exceptions and run time-type
identification incur run-time overhead whether or not they are actually
used in an application.

The article goes on to say one of the stated goals is to take into
consideration the memory limitations of embedded applications.  Reducing
certain features eliminates the need for their corresponding run-time
libraries.

However, the consortium that is putting this together wants to add some
other run-time libraries to support things like input and output to
strings and using allocators for string objects.

Thought this may not be directly PIC related, since the language seems to
be aimed at powerful processors, I thought i'd just pass it along.

Rob