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tedunangst on March 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenBSD base now free of C++

I think it's rather sad that HN has mostly ignored the meat of this story, and is instead focusing on a not entirely true one line throwaway.

jckarter on March 14, 2011 [–]

Sad, but understandable. "OpenBSD writes their own ROFF interpreter" isn't very interesting, but "OpenBSD purges C++ from core" appeals to developers' strong emotional responses toward C++.

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