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It's a bit ironic that he could have used that advice on himself, especially the first quote when designing C++.
by copperx 7y ago
It's a bit ironic that he could have used that advice on himself, especially the first quote when designing C++.
- ricc 7y agoMy impression is he would have wanted to but he was limited by that era's technology. Quoting from the article: > If you could go back in time and change one thing about the original implementation of C++, what would it be? > I don’t have a time machine and I shouldn’t try to second-guess 1983-vintage Bjarne—he knew the conditions at the time better than I do now, and any significant change probably wouldn’t have fitted in the 1MB memory I had to work with, and if it had maybe I wouldn’t have been able to port the compiler to an early 640MB Windows machine.