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0 pointspjc508y ago0 comments

> why does C++ still support

Stop right there! There is plenty of evidence that removing features from a language is fatal to adoption. Both Perl and Python have suffered from this.

Specifically for trigraphs (apart from these, EBCDIC support doesn't affect compilers on other systems) IBM have a vote and they voted not to remove it: https://isocpp.org/files/papers/N4210.pdf

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sstanie8y ago

How has Python suffered from this? They broke things going from 2 to 3... and it was still the fastest growing language from 2017. It clearly wasn't popular just because they removed features, but you can't say that removing things is fatal to adoption.

gpderetta8y ago

IIRC they did lose the final vote though, and trigraphs is one of the few features ever removed from C++.

72deluxe8y ago

I miss them - I enjoyed being able to write ??=include at the top of my files.

gpderetta8y ago

Hey, digraphs are still there, they are almost as much fun as trigraph!

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0 pointspjc508y ago0 comments

> why does C++ still support

Stop right there! There is plenty of evidence that removing features from a language is fatal to adoption. Both Perl and Python have suffered from this.

Specifically for trigraphs (apart from these, EBCDIC support doesn't affect compilers on other systems) IBM have a vote and they voted not to remove it: https://isocpp.org/files/papers/N4210.pdf

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sstanie8y ago

gpderetta8y ago

IIRC they did lose the final vote though, and trigraphs is one of the few features ever removed from C++.

72deluxe8y ago

I miss them - I enjoyed being able to write ??=include at the top of my files.

gpderetta8y ago

Hey, digraphs are still there, they are almost as much fun as trigraph!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse