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Re:Convincing C programmers to switch to C++: A look at huma... by lloydjatkinson on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:45AM (#14470746)
I like to think of C# as what C++ should have been.
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Re:Convincing C programmers to switch to C++: A look at huma... by monocasa on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:47AM (#14470766)
No, a garbage collector is a non-starter for a lot of what C and C++ get used for.

C# is more what Java should have been (which lines up pretty well with the history of C#).

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