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Comment by kazinator

20 hours ago

As if we have never seen design-by-committee damage coming from ISO?

Have you heard of this C++ thing? :)

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Joel_Mckay  20 hours ago

> Have you heard of this C++ thing?

The STL was good, but Boost proved a phenomena...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

ISO standards are often just a sign Process-people are in control =3

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