IAMA C++ Ask Me Anything

Go ahead, I, the mighty, wonderful, beautiful, athletic C++ will answer all your questions!

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True story: I know a bunch of people who got swept up in earlier waves of D hype a few years ago. The ones who got there via C became very cynical ("YES ANDREI TELL US MORE ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF RANGES") and moved on to less baffling projects like Go and Clojure. The ones who got there via Perl are still D zealots. I'm not sure what to infer from that.

A++ would giggle again

But seriously, D is nothing but a huge hack. It's unbelievable, but achieves... nothing. Nothing that C++ isn't already capable of...