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> Since the Internet seems to be full of people with way too much time on their hands, I would just like to kindly shoo away any C/C++ pedants out there. Yes, I
by bsimpson 2y ago
> Since the Internet seems to be full of people with way too much time on their hands, I would just like to kindly shoo away any C/C++ pedants out there. Yes, I am sure there are a million different ways to achieve many of the same results. Yes, I am sure there are some fine points of language semantics that could be argued about. Yes, I am sure you have a more efficient way of writing some of the functions.
> To be honest, I am not interested.
I respect this so much.
- andai 2y ago>Piccolo OS [...] is designed primarily as a teaching tool. This means you must carefully balance teaching the right thing (a realistic system implemented skillfully) against teaching the right way (simplification for didactic purposes).
- KerrAvon 2y agoYou shouldn't. This is what hardware people always say, and then when the result is an unmaintainable mess, they want software people to bail them out.
- KerrAvon 2y agothat said, there's not really a lot here, so I'm not sure what anyone would take issue with
- bsimpson 2y agoIt's a totally fine and respectable boundary to have: "I'm going to share some stuff I did for free for other people to learn from, but not if I get a bunch of bitchy/pedantic notifications about it."
- tredre3 2y ago> I respect this so much. You really shouldn't, Gary is extremely pedantic himself. He really really dislikes criticism or being corrected. For example on youtube, in many of his video comment's, he's engaged in long fights with anyone who claims that Arduino code is C++. In his mind it isn't, therefore that's that.
- ladyanita22 2y agoI have found him to say some incorrect stuff and being extremely reluctant to even reflect on it. I dislike him quite a lot to be honest...