Looking back on what programming used to be like can be a fascinatingly entertaining thing, which is why [Tough Developer] decided to download and try using Turbo C and C++, from version 1.0 to ...

My biggest issue with it is that “programming in C++” can just mean so many different things nowadays, from a trivial “C with classes ... type of template functions, limiting variables ...

It may be useful to think in terms of data memory in C and C++ as being divided into three separate spaces: Static memory. This is where variables, which are defined outside of functions, are located.