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Re:Uber, after buying Postmates, lays off more than 180 empl... by skybrian on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:30AM (#25890107)
In some cases, the outside world hadn’t settled on a standard when the code was first written, or it wasn’t that good yet.
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Re:Uber, after buying Postmates, lays off more than 180 empl... by danans on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:21PM (#25895519)
Exactly. For example, like many companies, Google had smart pointer implementations in its C++ codebase almost from its inception, but they didn't appear in the C++ standard until C++11.
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