D&D-style map of C++

Here's a treasure-map showing the relationships of C++ and its many offshoots, proponents, clones and pretenders.

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Previously:

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Anonymous

Needs an object graveyard with lots of zombies.
darkbeanie

Funny that the Memory Management Desert contains references to malloc, realloc and free … but not new and delete.
Anonymous

I need a poster of this.
mackenzi

Did somebody make this? Just go to the library.
mackenzi

It’s illegal to make maps anyway. Something will change. Whatever. The system admins always know when map making is going on, so I don’t even try it. What’s good is actually to use a map from a different city, graph it onto the grid and distribute it freely.
Anonymous

Haha! Bjarne is SAURON, hiding out in the Necromancer’s tower under Mirkwood, see it?

Presumably he’s torturing Thorin Oakenshield’s relatives in there.
Anonymous

Where’s the Dragon you ask? C++ IS the Dragon! The Dragon Slayers don’t appear on the map (yet?).
tim

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.

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Anonymous

Dude, real dungeons and dragons maps were made with graph paper, this is more of a LOTR style map. Yes, my geek cred is higher than yours
Anonymous

You didn’t even vote good on the original post. :(
poorbot

I believe I have found my new campaign setting!
Daemon

#1 – So, you’ll basicly be running a programmer’s version of Dungeons and Discourse?

For explanation, see uber-geeky webcomic, Dresen Codak
http://dresdencodak.com/2006/12/03/dungeons-and-discourse/
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/
Anonymous

Amazing. Beautiful.

This is going to help so much with my final on Saturday.
monstrinho_do_biscoito

god i hated c++ at university.

I’m pretty sure it was programming that sent me screaming from the altar of science into the wishwashy world of 3d animation.
Wibbly

It’s more Tolkein than D&D, but whatever …
Anonymous

I’m disappointed Qt wasn’t depicted as a Viking ship…
Anonymous

Where be Dragons?
Ian70

Wow.. this is some -serious- geekery.
Much too geeky for me, I fear.
Anonymous

Anybody know what program they used to make the map?