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		shakna 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Contracts for C Well, there's this list Stroustrup offers, of systems in C++ that he would reject: [0] [0] https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2018/p0977r0...

pjmlp 6 months ago [–]

One vote, C++ isn't a BDFL driven language.

Also WG14 famously killed Dennis Ritchie proposal to add fat pointers to C.

Language authors only have symbolic value once they relish control to a standards body.

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