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> Well, that's up to you whether you write that way or not. The problem is, it's also up to the programmers who worked on my codebase before I did. I would nev
by imagist 10y ago
> Well, that's up to you whether you write that way or not.
The problem is, it's also up to the programmers who worked on my codebase before I did. I would never write that atrocity, but I've come across that atrocity quite a few times in code I needed to modify.
- Nursie 10y agoI'll.never claim there aren't a ton of terrible coders out there. They exist in all languages, but perhapd C gives them the tools to be really, extra awful..
- imagist 10y agoIt also doesn't give you very good tools for refactoring to clean up the awfulness. Unit testing tools and the type system in C are such that it's fairly difficult to ensure that your refactor hasn't broken anything.