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Re:Ask HN: What does it mean to learn a new programming lang... by b20000 on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:32PM (#30804986)
with C++ it is easier to shoot yourself in the foot if you use modern features and/or the STL
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Re:Ask HN: What does it mean to learn a new programming lang... by gumby on Friday March 25, 2022 @06:41PM (#30807690)
I don't understand your comment; is a word missing?

Nowadays the old STL has been subsumed with a standard library (for quite a long time) and it has a lot of pretty safe functionality. That functionality tends to be only optimized for the common cases -- say a couple of sigma out -- so you can roll your own alongside it.

And a lot of the pointer manipulation inherited from C is unnecessary given things like range based for.

So what were you referring to?

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