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by tialaramex 1542 days ago
> Novices can be shielded, but professionals cannot be, because the features are exactly those needed by the professionals.

C++ chooses to add wrinkles, upon wrinkles, upon yet more wrinkles so as to produce a fractal of complexity that serves nobody, not novices, not professionals, not even the implementers benefit in the end. In the short term it was an administrative convenience I suppose, but it can hardly have been difficult to foresee the consequences.

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Tialaramex chooses to make shit up.