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A comment on 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup. Parent comment

Re:3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using... by bregma on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:18PM (#40089477)
Well, he's articulate and very experienced with software development who invented the original C++ out of necessity. In fact, he sounds like an ideal person to tech good programming practices using the language he helped design.
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Re:3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using... by Kranar on Friday April 19, 2024 @03:39PM (#40091140)
OP is making a dig at C++ the language. A lot of people, most likely OP included, consider the language to be a monstrosity, so how can the person who developed such a monstrosity possibly share good advice on programming?

That said, I sometimes get the impression that Bjarne recognizes the monstrosity that he created and a large part of his talks and his book is how to make use of the good parts of C++ without making use of the bad parts.

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