Same old C++:
... if you are shit, then you will write shit, but if you are _the_ shit, well, that's OK then. Someone up there wrote that they thought auto was like VB's variant 'type', and I suppose it can be used that way, but that's not why it was included.
My feeling is though that new features really confuse matters. Maybe I'm still at a _very_ educational stage of my development, but beyond C++'s complex inheritance, it oftens seems to me that C++ is a deliberate obfuscation of things you can do very reasonably in C.
C++ wants to be all things to certain kinds of programmer, but for most applications, C would actually be better, because its closer to assembly and therefore very controllable. Isn't control what C++ programmers crave?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
