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> I guess it might be interesting for all the people who, like the author, are Java and PHP programmers and have no experience with C? Maybe it isn't snark, bu
by JadeNB 11y ago
> I guess it might be interesting for all the people who, like the author, are Java and PHP programmers and have no experience with C?
Maybe it isn't snark, but that reads like it, and it seems unconstructive. Why knock down someone who's learning by denigrating his background? What's the harm in someone sharing something interesting (to him) that he learned, whether or not you think he should have known it already? It's easy enough not to read it, especially on a random blog and even on HN, if you don't want to share his experience.
- teddyh 11y agoI’m mostly trying to understand why this is deemed interesting, and not to snark. I mean, sure, anything voted up is interesting enough, but I thought that this was below the minimum level of knowledge a C programmer ought to have. It’s like if there was a story on the front page of HN about debugging HTTP using “telnet”.
- wink 11y agoBut there's loads of not-C-programmers who might still work on segfaults from time to time. For example I am absolutely able to use gdb, but have never heard of Electric Fence. (But I had heard of AddressSanitizer mentioned above.)