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:::Now as a contrary point, I have looked at various programming language articles on Wikipedia and generally they don't do language comparisons, merely language examples. But cc @[[User:Nexxl|Nexxl]] who added the comparison. [[User:Mathnerd314159|Mathnerd314159]] ([[User talk:Mathnerd314159|talk]]) 00:03, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
:::: Perhaps I spoke too brazenly, my apologies. It is true that a lot of C++ code is written that is, lets say, suboptimally portable (an implementation is ''allowed'' to declare {{tt|M_PI}} in a header, it's just not a standard requirement. It's also true that the vast majority of C++ code in the wild currently won't be using the C++20 and C++23 features that would make the comparison as direct as I would like it to be. I certainly don't mean to imply that the carbon folk are selling a maliciously self serving example, though it seems a bit silly to me to compare new carbon code with old C++ code. When comparing new carbon code with new C++ code, one can see that the differences are purely syntactic, which I think is a great and meaningful result of comparison between programming languages. With all that said, I'm amenable to restoring the comparison as it was, but obviously my preference remains otherwise. --[[User:Ybab321|Ybab321]] ([[User talk:Ybab321|talk]]) 22:54, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
:::::Now that I think about it, the best solution would be to update the C++ code in the Carbon repo with your code. Then Wikipedia can cite it and also you will be happy. So I would say, open a PR and see what happens. At least that way there will be an official response / nonresponse. [[User:Mathnerd314159|Mathnerd314159]] ([[User talk:Mathnerd314159|talk]]) 18:16, 28 February 2024 (UTC)