Now, a critic of Stroustrup's choices

Wed Sep 17 05:05:51 PDT 2014

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 09:21:13 UTC, eles wrote:
> "
> These are some notes I have on C++'s operator new. Basically, I 
> find its syntax downright hateful, and really wish the language 
> had dealt more cleanly with allocation and construction.

FWIW, Simula had "new". C++ is B.S.' attempt to marry C with 
Simula. It's not "designed", but more like "translated", then 
mutilated a posteriori… Hence the hodgepodge syntax (and 
semantics).