Re: I want the phone company back!

[Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>]

On Jun 28, 2026, at 9:26 AM, Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert> wrote:
> I've been seeing a lot of anti-C++ Youtube videos popping up lately.  Some
> of the arguments are against the "C" part of "C++", and I could definitely
> see some problems with that, but they are not nearly as serious as the
> "C++" parts, especially the horrible syntactic sugar which has been added
> in the last 20 years.

C (not C++) is great for what it's for, namely writing operating systems.  But 
it has a lot to answer for, especially = vs. ==.

C++ syntax was always horrible.  It's almost the case that every string of five 
punctuation characters has a meaning.  But at least now it has lambda.  :)