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That's fair, but I might focus on that.
I do think C++ has gotten a bit of an unfair rap (but some of its problems are ignored, so maybe it averages out) because it exposes what people don't understand. Scoping certainly. Strong typing. Pointers. Maybe you remember confused by call-by-value. Toss in STL and now you expose a lack of understanding of data structures - do I want a list or a vector or a dequeue or...
I do think C++ has gotten a bit of an unfair rap (but some of its problems are ignored, so maybe it averages out) because it exposes what people don't understand. Scoping certainly. Strong typing. Pointers. Maybe you remember confused by call-by-value. Toss in STL and now you expose a lack of understanding of data structures - do I want a list or a vector or a dequeue or...
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