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Re:The cost of forsaking C by Nursie on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:34AM (#12643618)
Writing C++ is three times as fast?

Perhaps so, but reading it back takes 5 times as long.

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Re:The cost of forsaking C by ArkyBeagle on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:29PM (#12648072)
No, not for similarly skilled writers. And C++ pushes certain pathologies into much more opaque, dark corners.
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