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C++
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/C'pluhspluhs/ , n. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as a
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successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice, although many hackers
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still grumble that it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending
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on generation), and a prime example of second-system effect. Almost anything
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that can be done in any language can be done in C++, but it requires a
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language lawyer to know what is and what is not legal the design is almost
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too large to hold in even hackers' heads. Much of the cruft results from
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C++'s attempt to be backward compatible with C. Stroustrup himself has said
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in his retrospective book The Design and Evolution of C++ (p. 207), Within
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C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
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Nowadays we say this of C++.
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