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Yes, C works if you know how to avoid the gotchas. It'd be nicer if the gotchas weren't there. It's not as if they add value to the language. (C++ OTOH seems to
by pdw 12y ago
Yes, C works if you know how to avoid the gotchas. It'd be nicer if the gotchas weren't there. It's not as if they add value to the language. (C++ OTOH seems to have too many gotchas to learn them all...)
- banachtarski 12y agoSeems to? How can you even know how to comment on the gotchas if you don't know them?
- the_why_of_y 12y agoScott Meyers seems to have made a career out of documenting them in his books.
- troubled5 12y agoThe statement is about the viability of learning all gotchas of C++, and to make a credible point on this you just need to know there exists a large number of them. (Indeed knowing all, or merely many, of the gotchas would speak against the conjecture.)
- banachtarski 12y agoEvery language has gotchas...