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What? C++ has always been one of the rare languages that don't mindlessly add stuff that drives them into a corner.


C++ has this fame of being a bloated language, which it kind of is.

However it isn't really that much bigger than Java, .NET + VB/C#/F#, Python, Ada, Common Lisp,... when one looks at the size of printed language, library and implementation specifications.

It is just that others are more beginner friendly and most devs forget they have a pile of features on their own languages as well.


And what would these numerous languages be - the ones that did mindlessly add stuff and drove themselves in a corner?




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