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0 points_gabe_3y ago0 comments

> That's mostly failure to use C++.

Isn't this the no true Scotsman fallacy? It looks like you're agreeing with the parent poster that a lot of people use a small subset of C++ to pretend that it's C with extras. If this is true, it's not a failure of all these people because they don't _really_ understand C++. It's a failure of the language designers because they have made something that nobody can agree on how to use.

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einpoklum3y ago

I should have used a different word. I meant "failure to do X" as in "not doing X", not as in "lack of success in the attempt to do X"

See the two meanings here:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/failure

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einpoklum3y ago

I should have used a different word. I meant "failure to do X" as in "not doing X", not as in "lack of success in the attempt to do X"

See the two meanings here:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/failure

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