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"This is 'Stroustrupian C++', or, if you prefer, 'extreme C'," jokes Caron, describing NeL code recipe. "This combination of languages was a good decision, since the project had to scale to great proportions: it's 500,000 lines of code today. Doing C++ on the edge was a bit painful, since C++ compilers are always seriously lagging behind the C++ standard, especially the STL part."
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