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I didn't even notice that. Good observation. I wonder if that's simply because C is a lot older and may just have a lot more dead code or this type of code or s

I didn't even notice that. Good observation. I wonder if that's simply because C is a lot older and may just have a lot more dead code or this type of code or something else entirely.

nxzero 11y ago
Maybe it's because C coders want to know why something happens more than coders in other popular languages; say popular since the frequency of an occurrence is proportional to the volume of source code in a given language.
speeder 11y ago
I am a C lover. It is because C has no exception handling, and C coders still want to be sure. For example once I had a game where I ended putting a couple "should never happen" in my code related to some OS stuff, and... the "should never happen" happened once, after figuring how to reproduce it, it was a driver bug (or something like that, happened years ago, I don't remember the details anymore, only remember that it went away after I switched from Alsa to OSS4 on my Linux box). EDIT: should never happen is good against compiler bugs too, I've seen my fair share of them.