It’s never been entirely clear to me how articles like this article on linuxdevices.com get cleared to be published.  If they’re onced over by someone with even half a clue about C++, they’d just get turned down.  It makes me worry about the quality of the magazine publishing them.  Nonetheless, someone used this article last night to justify a stance borne largely in ignorance as regards C++, so it’s time to clear the air about the language.  Today, I start a new category to curb C++ naïveté and misapprehensions.  This is the first entry in “C++ Myths.”

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