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Ah, the weekly 'C is evil' HN bit. FYI, your mouse is also dangerous, you can easily click the wrong way and send all your money away to someone in Nigeria. Sh
by buserror 9y ago
Ah, the weekly 'C is evil' HN bit.
FYI, your mouse is also dangerous, you can easily click the wrong way and send all your money away to someone in Nigeria. Should we blame the mouse?
- Etzos 9y agoThis seems like a bit of a knee-jerk reaction on your part. The article itself is interesting and points out an edge case which is likely to trip people up in certain situations. I don't really see the article mentioning or even hinting that "C is evil", it even includes a bit of a qualifier at the end: "C is reaching PHP-like levels of confusion here, but luckily for us this combination . . . is pretty hard to hit. I’ve never seen it in “real” code."
- blackflame7000 9y agoTo be fair the article is called "C is not your friend"
- buserror 9y agoA bit yes, I have to admit this. However it's not HARD to find new&interesting way of screwing up with the language, it's been done for longer than I'm alive, and some people abused it in extraordinary ways over the years [0], so all I can think of when I see that sort of article is 'HN clickbait'. It works. It's actually borderline trolling at this rate. [0]: http://www.ioccc.org/ http://www.ioccc.org/