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A comment on C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013). Parent comment

Re:C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013) by jejones3141 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:57AM (#16272747)
See Brooks's "No Silver Bullet". C++'s complexity is accidental.
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Re:C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013) by mar77i on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:31PM (#16275576)
I thought of Brooks when I saw the title; as I mentioned in my other comment, I see a kind of amusing pendant to Conway's law here: a complex programming language will produce a complex codebase.
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