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Re:You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (2010) by gpderetta on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:00AM (#22432260)
It seems to me that just a couple of do nothing placeholders were added to please Hans Boehm and get him to work on the c++ memory model :).
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Re:You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (2010) by pjmlp on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:29AM (#22432637)
Even so, there are the .NET, Unreal and COM/UWP programming models as well, which while not taking advantage of C++11 GC, do bring a GC into C++ world. :)
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