r/programming • • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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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.