> Almost everything that is popular has evolved over time, and making these changes once you have established users results in compromises that can be sort of ugly. C++ has patina.
You will note that C++ made that sort of ugly compromises from the start. Keeping a C-like syntax really wasn't necessary. (Keeping a C-like semantics, that's a different story.)
You will note that C++ made that sort of ugly compromises from the start. Keeping a C-like syntax really wasn't necessary. (Keeping a C-like semantics, that's a different story.)