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jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:

> C++ has become so complicated that it is unreadable unless you have
> the compiler to parse it. What is being called here? Who knows?

You keep repeating this as if it were ae fact.

If your C++ is notably less clear than your C, it is because you are a
bad C++ programmer, not because C++ is a bad language.  One can
certainly write incomprehensible code in C++.

But have you seen Duff's Device?  How about the RCU or filesystem layer
code in the linux kernel? Does the simplicity of C make that easy for
the human brain to understand?

> There are so many complex files around and so many confusing and
> contradicting rules that it is an impossible task for an unaided human
> brain to follow C++.

My experience differs.