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Re:Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What s... by AlexCoventry on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:54AM (#24132081)
I've written 5-line C++ programs which have stumped experts for hours. There's a trilogy of books about all its edge cases and best practices for working around them... C++ still has a place, but not as a beginning systems language.
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Re:Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What s... by lenkite on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:37AM (#24132443)
I hope we never judge how easy is it to learn and use a programming language by obfuscated code contests. All languages will fail by that measure in their lifetime as they accumulate cruft.
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Re:Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What s... by AlexCoventry on Sunday August 16, 2020 @03:08AM (#24175875)
This wasn't obfuscated code. This was a MWE, where I was trying to understand why it wasn't working as expected.
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