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by unscaled 11y ago
Which group are you referring to? Mainstream languages? The languages mentioned above? Perl 6 was designed from start to be very breaking, but even putting Perl 6 aside, Ruby had quite a few breaking changes going from 1.8 to 1.9 - and that
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by unscaled 11y ago
And the single-line comments, if not using a C99-compliant compiler. I wouldn't be surprised if he was using Visual C++ and had to change the extension to support a comment syntax that doesn't make you want to strangle yourself.
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by unscaled 11y ago
What war did Obama start exactly? If you're referring to the continuation of America's involvement in Afghanistan, let's not forget who was the president who first got America in there and provided training and financial supp
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by unscaled 11y ago
You've probably never had the pleasure of using ME. Heck, even Windows 95 and 98 often meant daily crashes for the power users among us. Beyond flame-baiting, I don't think any of the major modern desktop OSes (including their mos
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by unscaled 12y ago
Some C++ programmers love writing cross-platform code, with platform including non-UNIX platforms here, so /dev/random just won't work. That's why you'd need an "abstract standard name". One of the largest
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by unscaled 12y ago
The post you're replying to just did: Evernote 4 for Windows was rewritten from scratch in C++ (with WTL). It was C#/WPF before. I can give you a few more: Chrome (not entirely new, but still the newest major browser around), Subl
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by unscaled 12y ago
Go isn't (and probably will never be) a viable alternative for most of the use cases where you'd want C/C++: 1. Embedded, real-time, kernel: As a GC language which is not meant to write close-to-the-metal code and produces ra
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by unscaled 12y ago
That hasn't been true for the vast majority Enterprise environments for the last decade or so, and even before for places which dumped the the Windows 9x lineage earlier. Even home users on anything beyond XP rarely run with default Ad