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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: OT: Programming Languages
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 00:38:06 +0100
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On 11/1/24 23:50, Nick Hayward wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:57:21 +0100, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
> 
>> On 11/1/24 19:04, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>> You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
>>> more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep
>>> the rest; I'll stick with that.
>>
>> Agreed! All the hand-holding of later versions just get in the way.
>>
>> Jeroen Belleman
> 
> What about C++?
> 

C++ is an abberation. It completely misses the point of C,
which is basically a language intended to map efficiently to
the underlying hardware.

Some features of C++ are handy, but most are completely over
the top. Some are downright harmful.

Jeroen Belleman