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santaclaus on June 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank [pdf]

Why can't we simply have C + RAII + generics? That would be a baller language.

10098 on June 24, 2014 [–]

throw in first-order functions and lambdas as well, replace generics with templates the way they are now, and I'm all for that!

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