Now, a critic of Stroustrup's choices

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On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 09:16:39 UTC, Paulo  Pinto 
wrote:
> These issues are touched in the book if I remember correctly.

Yeah, but I don't have it and hoped you would give me some juicy 
quotes :).

> Quite a few C++ design decisions came from the requirement to 
> fit 1:1 with C toolchains.

Isn't it funny (or sad) though how the IT sector keeps being 
bogged down by clogged backwards compatibility issues going all 
the way back to the 60s and 70s?

> Now we need to wait for C++17, or do some marketing that D has 
> them today. :)

Hm, yes.