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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by thrownaway2424 on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:08AM (#10546000)
Nobody is going to make you overload operators, do work in constructors, or throw exceptions. Restrict yourself to the subset of C++ that you prefer.

By comparison there is no subset of C that lacks malloc/free.

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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by sixbrx on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @08:11AM (#10546471)
In practice most of us are restricted to the subsets (note plural) chosen by the people who wrote the original systems we work on.
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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by ant6n on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @10:18AM (#10547034)
But then you can't move to another language anyway. If you can move to another language (say if you start a new project), it's worth moving from C++ to C++11.
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