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jfarmer
on Jan 29, 2009
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Parody of an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the...
Better question: why would anyone use a "harder" language, all else being equal?
hairsupply
on Jan 29, 2009
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Entrenchment. The main product I work on is 3.5 million lines of C++, built with MCF and ATL. We can frankestein other technologies into there, but its expensive and clunky. The cost of rewriting the whole thing is prohibitive, so C++ it is.
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