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Re:C++ is a hack by meirelles on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:29PM (#11111516)
It's a great language showing aging signs. Most languages become obsolete before becoming old.
Re:C++ is a hack by angelbob on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:36PM (#11111571)
I learned C++ around 1990. It was a hack then, too. It began life as a weird preprocessor for C, and some of the seams from that beginning have shown the entire time.