XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 06:55:59 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
      
   > I've been getting used to using the universal initializer (from C++11):   
   >   
   >     const byte addresses[][6] { "00001", "00002" };   
   >     int angleValue { 0 };   
   >     boolean buttonState { 0 };   
      
   Another 'feature' I am blissfully unaware of. That only puts you 12 years   
   behind C++23 and the imminent C++26.   
      
   You'll have to use std.println("Hello World!"); rather than the cout <<   
   "Hello World"" << endl;  stuff.  Remember those deprecated C style .h   
   headers? Apparently they're undeprecated.   
      
   I think a preference for C++ depends on when you started using it. It   
   needed a couple of more years in the womb before it got kicked out into   
   the cruel world. It hit the streets in '85 with the STL to follow in 10   
   years with the C++ Standard Library to follow.   
      
   You can really blame Microsoft for creating MFC; they had to wrap their C   
   API in something. You can blame them for DDE/OLE/COM, the ATl, and   
   adopting Hungarian notation.   
      
   C++ certainly isn't alone. I decided to brush up on Angular. The web app   
   we did was Angular 9. In Angular 21 components are standalone, so the old   
   module configuration file is gone, a change for the better.  Python3 was a   
   breaking change from Python2, etc. Maybe modern C++ is much better than   
   what I was exposed to similar to modern Fortan being quite a bit different   
   to Fortran 77.   
      
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