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Re:My Most Important C++ Aha Moments (2006) by SamReidHughes on Sunday June 26, 2016 @06:33PM (#11983112)
Did it ever occur to you that if a C++ programmer of security mindset wanted to make something like postfix or qmail, they'd just pick a language that was garbage collected?
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Re:My Most Important C++ Aha Moments (2006) by 101291091 on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:46AM (#11984899)
No, it did not occur to me. The reason is precisely that I have not seen this mindset among C++ programmers, at least in the open source world. Llvm is an exception.

What I do see is hubris. They are overconfident and pretend that one can use C++ like Haskell, i.e. one can safely go ahead and pile one abstraction onto another.

C programmers at least know the limitations of their language.

This is the just impression that I and many others get. I'm sure there are counterexamples.

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