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by user22 1949 days ago
Yup, there is a group of people who think that we should add brakes and lcd displays to horses because cars have these nifty things. For some reason, they don't understand it's ok that horses are not used for everyday travel anymore.

I hate the mess that c++ is. It started out with a object based programming paradigm with c like syntax. Then generics/templates were added. Then we have modern c++. It's 3 different languages crammed into one. The c++ committee has a serious case of nifty-itis.