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by hyperhello 29 days ago
I know it’s arbitrary and I know the symbol has been overloaded since they ran out of them, but at one time there was a certain economy and simplicity. < and > meant less than and greater than; { } were code blocks; even the semicolon was the right thing to use to break statements. I wish they had stuck to that kind of readability because I don’t know what C++ thinks it’s doing anymore.
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> I don’t know what C++ thinks it’s doing anymore.

C++, when increment becomes excrement, decrement back to C.