Do at least K&R not feel this way?
That discussion above does not really apply to C++. But then, if you lower the bar to how much C++ is widely known (the intersection, not union), it'll apply.
That discussion above does not really apply to C++. But then, if you lower the bar to how much C++ is widely known (the intersection, not union), it'll apply.
From http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html:
"Somewhere I have a note from dmr [the R in K&R] certifying that all the compilers that he believes in accept it."
So at least at some point Duff showed Ritchie something in C that Ritchie hadn't seen or considered before, long after C had been invented.