[OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user?

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2011-12-22, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <jcthh3$8vd$1 at reader1.panix.com>,
>  Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> C++ is a vast, complex, and dangerous language -- and industry
>> doesn't seem to be willing to limit itself to using the seven
>> people on the planet who understand it.
>
>> I'm only half joking...  :)
>
> Half joking, indeed.  I happen to know for a fact that there
> are *fourteen* people on the planet who understand it.

One of its greatest contributions to computer science were
Glassbarrow's C++ puzzles. They likely couldn't have been as
challenging in any other language. ;)

-- 
Neil Cerutti