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Is my fear of C/++ Justified? (quokk.au)

submitted 1 week ago by Solrac to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Is my fear of C/++ justified?, -cursed `e` coding-, The Engima of Segmentation Fault

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The problem is that you can't break compatibility.

Only in some exceptional cases. 🙃

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Not with that attitude

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Personally, I'd love to break compatibility for better features and consistency. We should be able to declare the version at the top of the file or something. Nothing at the top = legacy crap. 🤷‍♂️ I dunno.

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