On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 09:01:13PM +1000, onefang wrote:
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> That reminds me of how I got a job as a C++ programmer, but I have never
> bothered to actually learn C++.
>
> C++ is such a large complex language that everyone uses a subset of it, a
> different subset for each of us. C is a suitable subset of C++, by
> design, hence the name. As an accomplished C programmer, I could easily
> get away with mostly writing C++ as if it was C.

I once implemented C++. This got me into a lot of obscure features.
But it was in the days before templates.

-- hendrik