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by dragonwriter 3979 days ago
> but the notion that C++ is horrible has been around for a long time

Yeah, "C++ is horrible" is as old as C++.

The exact basis has changed -- early on, it was that C++ did OOP poorly, even compared to other contemporary C-based efforts (notably, Objective-C). Now its more that OOP is the wrong solution.