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A comment on The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987). Parent comment

Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by throwphoton on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:31PM (#23287595)
Interesting. Not casting a void pointer return value seems like a bit of a shibboleth for the "C is not a subset of C++" community.
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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by enriquto on Sunday May 24, 2020 @10:26AM (#23291742)
A "better" shibboleth is using "new" and "old" as identifiers. It serves as a good barrier to avoid accidental C++ compilation.
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