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My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you're not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you're not living.
My experience with C++ was when C++ was a relatively new thing. Practically the only notable feature provided by the standard library, was that unholy abuse of bit shift operators for I/O. No standard collections or any other data types.
And every compiler would consider something else a valid C++ code or interpret the same code differently.
I am little bit prejudiced since then… and that is probably where the author is coming from too.
Then things were just getting more complicated (templates and other new syntax quirks), to fill the holes in attempts to make C a 'high level language'.
C++ from 11 onwards started to really shine and since C++17 it's got some good shit inside
Yeah wtf is up with the overridden bitshifts? Was Stroustroup drunk?
It's a syntax sugaring and it reads pretty well in my eyes - it's really obvious what is meant by that syntax.