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I know no tool would solve every problem, but I can't help but wondering if someone developed and IDE that truly got C++ would that allow C++ to be used by more projects. Seeing grep referenced for code searches reminds me that grep has no knowledge of the context of anything in a searched file. It almost seems like C is the only choice if you can't go beyond context-less tools.

//a grep specifically for C++ code - hum



One problem with C++: It is hard to build tools for, because parsing it is nearly impossible. Clang and GCC plugins may change this situation, though.


Are you implying C++ isn't widely used? I'm sure that isn't what you truly believe...


oh no, I know it is widely used (Visual C++ and the ilk). I was more thinking in these huge C open source projects.




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