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“Fried shrimp should be removed from the all you can eat chinese buffay because i cant help myself from eating at least 20 of them in a single sitting and now i have stomach cramp”


The very first Hello World program anyone learning C++ will write uses the godawful iostream bitshifting operators! Not even the language's authors could help themselves eating 20 fried shrimp on the first day the buffet was open!


If we were set on banning all of the features C++ abused from new languages, we would probably end up writing just empty brackets.


And even then, some Python fan will come in and this is what you will end up with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...


This!

The iostream bitshift overload was one of the first features of C++ that I learned to despise. I'm very happy that there's an alternative in the new version.


Agreed the gluttons




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