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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:

1. DerekL ◴[17 Sep 25 05:52 UTC] No.45272221[source]▶

True, but hardly anyone used it until Windows 3, or even 3.1.

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