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My lecturer in second year, > 20 years ago mind, said we are learning C, because C++ is C with an ugly object oriented graft on top.

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Your lecturer did you a disservice; clearly he only knew C, and didn't want to learn any more.

The more your C++ code resembles C, the worse it is.

Maybe he only knew C as you say. I did C++ professionally for a while. Not properly, just updating models in derivatives trading systems. I remember reading 3 Scott Meyer books, the Effective Programming series, at the time, they were a tour de force. Loved that guy. I've lost track of everything since 11 or whenever they introduced move semantics. One day I might go back to it.

Nowadays it's "rule of zero": compiler-generated constructors, destructor, assignments, compare. The members are of types smart enough on their own.

Lambdas are generic now, and variadics work most places.

Velocity has shot up. Fun, too.

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