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What's all the C Plus Fuss? Bjarne Stroustrup warns of dangerous future plans for his C++

Waseem Alkurdi

(which just makes me think of VB "Variants"... shudder...)

Talking of the devil! For those who haven't endured the mental pain of understanding it:

Want a data type that stores strings and integers, yet can't use string functions nor integer functions, nor can be useful for anything? Yes sir: Variant.

Worse still is that not defining a data type for a variable "implicit declaration" gives you a fucking Variant.

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