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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by a3n on Sunday May 12, 2013 @01:10AM (#5693239)
Everything on the right of the dash in your example, or something like it.

If you have to use other words to describe what something is, why not use the other words in the first place?

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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by wtallis on Sunday May 12, 2013 @01:22AM (#5693252)
All he did was reverse the order of the types. Right-to-left parsing really isn't that complicated, and mimicking English grammar is not as good an idea as you think it is.
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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by frankzinger on Sunday May 12, 2013 @02:13AM (#5693347)
Because it requires too much typing, especially for something you use all the time. Seriously, the syntax is not that difficult to understand and remember.
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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by angrycoder on Sunday May 12, 2013 @01:45AM (#5693294)
COBOL++, hey it still has a C in it.
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Re:The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by ithkuil on Sunday May 12, 2013 @08:23AM (#5694015)
ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL

(well to be fair, 'add 1 to cobol' should be enough)

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