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Re:The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake by nijuashi on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @07:57PM (#44665381)
Stroustrup took out object hierarchy introspection feature that was available before, which turned out to be a pretty handy feature that people kept trying to reimplement.
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Re:The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake by pjmlp on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:02AM (#44668195)
Finally coming into C++26, but boy the syntax, C++ keeps competing with Perl on that regard, and I say this as someone that enjoys coding in C++ on my free time.
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