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In Defense of C++

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185 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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whobre ◴[16 Sep 25 21:24 UTC] No.45268263[source]▶
> C++ is very old, in fact, it came out in 1985, to put it into perspective, that’s 4 years before the first version of Windows was released

Nitpick, I guess, but Windows 1.0 was released in November 1985:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

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1. rightbyte ◴[16 Sep 25 22:18 UTC] No.45268957[source]▶
Funny how silly Windows 1 looks compared to Mac OS 1. I wonder if it was the color support taking resources.