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“C has known memory footguns. C++, due to its complexity, has footnukes.” - Hacker News comment (programming.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The quote is a derivative of something Bjarne Stroustrup said himself¹.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off

1: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

A citation with a superscript number reference in a comment? Impressive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Makes sense C++ makes everything harder