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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: [OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user?
Date: 22 Dec 2011 13:19:21 GMT
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On 2011-12-22, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <jcthh3$8vd$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>  Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> C++ is a vast, complex, and dangerous language -- and industry
>> doesn't seem to be willing to limit itself to using the seven
>> people on the planet who understand it.
>
>> I'm only half joking...  :)
>
> Half joking, indeed.  I happen to know for a fact that there
> are *fourteen* people on the planet who understand it.

One of its greatest contributions to computer science were
Glassbarrow's C++ puzzles. They likely couldn't have been as
challenging in any other language. ;)

-- 
Neil Cerutti