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Re:Oberon vs. C++ (1994) by pdw on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @02:13PM (#9264817)
Yes, C works if you know how to avoid the gotchas. It'd be nicer if the gotchas weren't there. It's not as if they add value to the language. (C++ OTOH seems to have too many gotchas to learn them all...)
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Re:Oberon vs. C++ (1994) by banachtarski on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @02:27PM (#9264922)
Seems to? How can you even know how to comment on the gotchas if you don't know them?
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Re:Oberon vs. C++ (1994) by troubled5 on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @09:34PM (#9267283)
The statement is about the viability of learning all gotchas of C++, and to make a credible point on this you just need to know there exists a large number of them.

(Indeed knowing all, or merely many, of the gotchas would speak against the conjecture.)

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Re:Oberon vs. C++ (1994) by banachtarski on Thursday March 26, 2015 @03:58PM (#9272621)
Every language has gotchas...
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Re:Oberon vs. C++ (1994) by the_why_of_y on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @07:42PM (#9266837)
Scott Meyers seems to have made a career out of documenting them in his books.
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