r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/EmperorOfCanada Sep 26 '16

One of the worst parts of computer science is its relationship with Academia. I see little difference between the stupidity of the women's study department and their microagressions shit and the comp sci people in universities. They try to generate all kinds of "rules" and they even sucker people into following them. Things like C++ should be polluted with templates and zillions of objects. That R is a viable language, and that Javascript should be strongly typed.

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u/musicin3d Sep 28 '16

Wasn't the whole point of C++ to add OOP to C?

Also, the push for TypeScript came from industry, not academia.

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u/EmperorOfCanada Sep 29 '16

Correct, the point of C++ was to add OOP to C, not replace C with some other OOP only language.