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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

If you do C, and avoid pointers, do tell me what the point is using the language at all?

I mean if memory management is "the only way to shoot yourself in the foot" in C, then thats a quite big part of the language!

[-] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you do C, and avoid pointers, do tell me what the point is using the language at all?

Person is saying that C has one big footgun, while C++ has armory of them

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

C is like one big problem then :-D

C++ lots of smaller problems: divide & conquer baby!

[-] jas0n@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

But it's a single problem.

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