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by exo-cortex 1247 days ago
we should! We have laws against oil spills, we should have laws that prohibit languages with the singular purpose of making me point a gun to my foot and pull the trigger repeatedly.

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You can have my footgun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I think Stroustrup was quoted as saying something like "With C, you can shoot yourself in the foot, but with C++, you can blow your whole leg off."
It does increment the number of barrels by one.