This note describes some key aspects of what C++ is and of how C++ has developed
over the years. The perspective is that of an experienced C++ user looking at C++ as a practical tool. No attempts are made to compare C++ to other languages, though I have tried to answer some questions that I have often heard asked by Lisp programmers.
Like all living languages, C++ has grown and changed over the years. For me, the improvements to C++
have seemed almost glacially slow and inevitable; they are natural developments of C++’s own internal
logic and deliberate responses to the experiences of hundred of thousands of users. To many who wanted
to use C++ aggressively, this growth has been frustratingly slow and timid. To some who considered C++
only infrequently, the developments have seem like unpredictable lurches into the unknown. To others,
C++ has simply been something peripheral about which little concrete was known, but about which a multitude
of strange rumors persisted.
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