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I always am perplexed with how C and C++ are so high on this list. Given that some (all?) of the measure is based on search engine results. When I had some C/C++ back when I was in college, I was very underwhelmed at the number of resources available online. I had taught myself web development just by Googling everything I had an issue with. Tried the same with C/C++ and felt there was an couple orders of magnitude less available information.

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C++ developer here. IMHO the easiest access to quality information are books (usually not for free) but apart from that I was always able to find everything on-line -standard draft, language changes proposals, references, SO questions, blogs, talks, OSS projects, OS/hw specifications - you name it. Do you mean anything in particular you were not able to find?

Yea, I can't remember as it's been many years but I do remember finding maybe one or two sites talking about what I needed (somewhat), and what I was working with was probably pretty entry-level stuff.

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