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Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale by dvdkhlng on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:27PM (#24849363)
Uh, you're too optimistic:

Everybody and their uncle had a lot of ideas about how they would fix "C++". Eventually all those contradicting ideas got merged into the C++ standard.

:)

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Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale by einpoklum on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:08PM (#24852205)
No no, almost nothing gets merged into the standard if it breaks anything, and to "fix" the language you definitely have to break it...
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