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his comments on C are completely unfounded. C's type coercion means you can ram all sorts of things into places they aren't supposed to go. typecasting says to me that there is nothing orthodox about C at all. if anything it is modern protestantism, a faith that lets you ram in whatever you want, but one wrong move and you go to hell (segfault)



If hell is segfault, then Heaven must be a memory leak?


Heaven is where C programmers go when they move to C++ and discover shared_ptr.


Where do C++ programmers go when the move to Java and discover garbage collection?


To the second level. Where do you think they go when they move over to Python/Ruby/whatever and find out dynamic typing?

ask Dante Alighieri...


return(1);


i'm always wondering why people feel the need to dress up the return keyword as a function.




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