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Those Turbo C++ tutorials tend to come out of India, and it’s because their schools are stuck teaching that. But those aren’t really tutorials for modern C++, they’re tutorials for C-with-classes at best.



Definitely, however many beginners don't know about it.

Imagine a group of teenager, getting interested into C++ via the Arduino or Pi based school projects, they search YouTube for tutorials (as common practice nowadays) and land on such tutorials.


That's not an hypothetical btw, I had students in France who fell into this




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