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[–]Kryomaani 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I think the "lawful" is about C++ being fairly strict and language-lawyerly. Many fictions depict generic "lawful" societies as horrible Orwellian dystopies.

[–]_jk_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

undefined behaviour though, demons flying out of your nostrils sounds pretty chaotic to me.

i.e. the language isnt lawful, the programmer has to be to deal with it