
Cpp2, with Herb Sutter
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The Limits of Breaking Changes in C++
I think you get a chance about once every 30 years to do what we're doing. And there it's important to really take advantage of it. If I had to boil it down to one thing, I would say I love Vittorio's epochs proposal except it has one letter too many. It should be epoch because I worry very much about taking a significant breaking change more thanonce every 30 years. You know, customers are great, but they're also a ball of chains sometimes. Once you become that popular, it becomes much harder to do things like additions. Can we help them solve their problems better at lower cost with fewer accidental bugs with less to learn and teach as we
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