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I'm not sure "resmelting" is even a thing. I am sure that the GP is joking.

• logicallee 9y ago
  Guys, yes! I was joking. I was directly riffing on the common claim that C++ is "just a tool". This exact phrase, in quotes, has over a hundred thousand hits on Google[1], many of them immediately comparing it to a hammer or a screwdriver. The usual context is that C++ isn't really "unsafe" -- it's just a tool, how you use it is up to you. In the case of the standard library being broken, it is like a tool that is broken. Resmelting might not be a word but the idea of the hammer not being cast correctly and needing to be re-cast is ridiculous. In essence I was making fun of the "there's nothing wrong with C++, just like there's nothing wrong with a hammer" common claim. I was taking it to an extreme. (I thought it was funny.) [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22C%2B%2B+is+just+a+tool%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22C%2B%2B+is+just+a+tool%22
  • cortesoft 9y ago
    I have no idea why I thought you were serious. Poe's law?
• twic 9y ago
  It seems it is: http://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/langeid/project/iron-steel/resmelt-iron/ http://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/langeid/proj...
• fasquoika 9y ago
  It's not a thing. Smelting means purifying from ore by melting. Unless you turn your hammer back into iron ore, there's no way to "resmelt" it
  • louithethrid 9y ago
    If you melt metall down again, you get a very brittle, carbon reduced new version, whos properties depend upon the crystallization temperaturcurve?