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This is talking about "Clostridioides difficile" bacteria, so despite the title it is not about how difficult it is to get rid of those bits of legacy C code no
by SiempreViernes 3y ago
This is talking about "Clostridioides difficile" bacteria, so despite the title it is not about how difficult it is to get rid of those bits of legacy C code nobody understand any more.
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- wellthisisgreat 3y agoYeah it’s the the cryptic variable names that make running diff on C code particularly difficult
- h2odragon 3y agoSuggests a nice addition to the "Evil C Standard": All variable names shall be in latin
- escapecharacter 3y agoI, too, enjoyed the domain whiplash I experienced as I went from word 1 to 2 in the article title.
- cratermoon 3y agoI'm in that overlapping part of the Venn diagram where I read "C diff" and both programming and infectious bacteria come to mind. But I see it written that way in the context of medicine far more than some incidental reference to diff in the C programming world.
- anthk 3y agoWell, Unix it's the ultimate virus, so...
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