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A comment on The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix (2016) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix... by MikkoFinell on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:18AM (#17047436)
Yes actually. Our teacher in university described it as "Something really bad".
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Re:The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix... by simias on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:19PM (#17049114)
In the context of C or C++? I've read similar warnings in C++ tutorials in the past and I tend to agree with them, in C it's just silly however.
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Re:The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix... by MikkoFinell on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:28PM (#17049204)
In the context of a C systems programming class.
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