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A friend of mine whose research group works on high throughout X-ray Crystallography had to learn C++ for his work, and he says that it was like "wrangling an unhappy horse".
I'm not sure how I feel about someone controlling an X-ray machine with C++ when they haven't used the language before... At least it's not for use on humans.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Yep, I learned about this exact case when I got my engineering degree.