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@armchair_progamer@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.dev •
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“C has known memory footguns. C++, due to its complexity, has footnukes.” - Hacker News comment

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“C has known memory footguns. C++, due to its complexity, has footnukes.” - Hacker News comment

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    92•9 months ago

    The quote is a derivative of something Bjarne Stroustrup said himself¹.

    C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off

    1: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html

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      A citation with a superscript number reference in a comment? Impressive.

    • @grandma@sh.itjust.works
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      Makes sense C++ makes everything harder

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