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There are people on the C standard commitee with their main goal keep C tompatible with C++. They don't win ever debate but they win many.



I don't doubt it, unfortunately design by committee has its constraints.

For example, had C kept under control by its authors, maybe even the security story would have been sorted out by now, who knows.




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