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by marcosdumay 719 days ago
C with classes and text-template generics would be an ok subset of the language, if external concepts didn't keep creeping into its semantics. The problem is that they do.

Almost every part of C++ creeps into almost every other part, and C was already complex enough... and let's just ignore that C++ is not completely compatible with C.