I started in C and switch to C++. It’s easy to think that the latter sort of picked up where the former left off, and that since the advent of C++11, it’s unfathomably further ahead. But C continues to develop and occasionally gets some new feature of its own. One example I can think of is the restrict key word that allows for certain optimizations. Afaik it’s not included in the C++ standard to date, though most compilers support it some non-standard way because of its usefulness. (With Rust, the language design itself obviates the need for such a key word, which is pretty cool.)

Another feature added to C was the ability to initialize a struct with something like FooBar fb = {.foo=1, .bar=2};. I’ve seen modern C code that gives you something close to key word args like in Python using structs. As of C++20, they sort of added this but with the restriction that the named fields have to come in the same order as they were originally defined in the struct, which is a bit annoying.

Over all though, C++ is way ahead of C in almost every respect.

If you want to see something really trippy, though, have a look at all the crazy stuff that’s happened to FORTRAN. Yes, it’s still around and had a major revision in 2018.

I suppose it is a kind of survival training? One of my bandmates who’s served came up after. “So here’s the deal. You watch what everyone else is eating. If they’re meticulously avoiding the peach cobbler or whatever it is, you F’ing stay away from that S if you know what’s good for you!”

I’m in a band that performs on occasion at CFBs (Canadian Forces Bases). We typically eat there and spend the night either in barracks or guest housing.

I have noticed that when we play for officers, dinner is like steak and lobster. When we play for enlisted, it’s more like high school cafeteria. The one and only time I had to excuse myself towards the end of a concert and miss the closing number was after eating at the enlisted mess and getting explosive diarrhea.

This was a struggle for me going from hobbyist programmer to working at a company. I tried to tone it down. Really. But eventually I got “promoted” to having my own office with a suspiciously thick door. Hmm…

True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…

Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It’s obnoxious.

This is a big deal. The UN doesn’t throw the term genocide around lightly. And I thank the OP for linking directly to their site to give as unadulterated a reporting as possible.

There is an issue with templated code where the implementation does have to be in the header as well, though that is not the case here. C++20 introduced modules which I guess were meant to sort out this mess, but it has been a rocky road getting them to be supported by compilers.

Looks like we’ve got a Java programmer here taking C++ for a spin.

Ah ok, that makes more sense. It does look like there is only a single highway linking the town of Feodosia to Kerch, so a blockage along that route would be annoying to the Russians, though obviously not as catastrophic as an attack on the Kerch Bridge itself.

I’m a little confused. Feodosia, the town, doesn’t seem all that close to the bridge when I look at Google Maps. Or is Feodosia also the name of a county (or whatever they’re called) which extends towards Kerch and the bridge?

There is bounds checking, but it’s opt-in. I often enable it on debug builds.

That Sora-Q rover is some cool tech. I remember watching a demo of it on a TV show. It was co-developed by JAXA (the Japanese space agency) and TOMY (yes, the toy company), and it’s a little transformer bot.

My Japanese is a little rusty, but in the interview, the inventors talk about how they wanted a tiny rover the size of a baseball that could navigate the lunar surface. After numerous abortive attempts at making something that small that could still propel itself over lunar sand, one of the team had a dream about sea turtles that inspired the final design. They claim it can handle grades of up to 30° which is better than a lot of larger rovers.

And yes, TOMY is making a consumer version of it with a working camera you can operate using a phone app. Their rep said they wanted to inspire a new generation to tinker and develop interest in space exploration and sciences in general.