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Re:The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:58AM (#21241064)
With apologies to Philip Greenspun:

Any sufficiently complicated C program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of C++.

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Re:The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h by marcosdumay on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:51PM (#21242932)
Yes, but it's most of the good 1/5 of it, with just a little bit of the atrocious 1/3, and the rest taken from the "who cares" 7/15.
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Re:The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h by wayoutthere on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:46PM (#21241328)
Sure, but the C++ STL is to code as this [1] is to knives.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wenger-16999-Swiss-Knife-Giant/dp/B00....

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Re:The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h by benj111 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @01:53PM (#21241709)
For the low low price of $9999.99.

Is that the maximum you can charge on Amazon? Seems strange that they'd want to put a limit on it.

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Re:The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h by jjoonathan on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:26PM (#21243602)
Now let's see boost in this metaphor :P

(Are there enough knives in the entire swiss army to make this work?)

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