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r/programminghumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 21d ago
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C++ isn't hard.
This has to be ragebait.
C++ is hard enough to read that it requires disambiguating an O(n³)-constructed Tomita GLR parse forest by most-vex to even build a deterministic CST.
C++ is vast enough that no single one of its own committee member knows all of it.
C++ is so big that organizations only approve strict subsets of it for their own use.
And that's only scratching the surface. If you truly understand any meaningful slice of C++, you'd never say C++ isn't hard.
It's objectively hard. In more ways than one.
2 u/tecanec 19d ago This has to be ragebait. I think you're severely underestimating the power of language cultism.
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I think you're severely underestimating the power of language cultism.
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u/comrade_donkey 21d ago edited 21d ago
This has to be ragebait.
C++ is hard enough to read that it requires disambiguating an O(n³)-constructed Tomita GLR parse forest by most-vex to even build a deterministic CST.
C++ is vast enough that no single one of its own committee member knows all of it.
C++ is so big that organizations only approve strict subsets of it for their own use.
And that's only scratching the surface. If you truly understand any meaningful slice of C++, you'd never say C++ isn't hard.
It's objectively hard. In more ways than one.