C++ – an Invisible Foundation of Everything

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C++ – an Invisible Foundation of Everything
What is C++ and why do people still use it? Bjarne Stroustup
provides a short note answering these questions.

Read the article in the ACCU, Overload Journal...
https://www.accu.org/journals/overload/29/161/overload161.pdf

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Good reading.

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A few things stood out for me in that article:

1. A type-safe program can still contain serious logic errors

2. Test early, often, and systematically

3. Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost

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The "Afterwood" article mentions the "Lemmings" game written in DHTML.

http://www.crazygames.com/game/html5-lemmings