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...C++ teaches good programming practices? I thought it mainly teaches you how to be paranoid, and how to keep track of the bizarre interactions of 20 bespoke historical features.

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One can say the same about Java, although less of the paranoid part.

The moment you have to deal with checked exceptions in a pipeline of lambdas, you become paranoid about your own sanity.

Certainly better than non-typed python.

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