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A comment on Embracing Modern C++ Safely, Book Review. Parent comment

Re:Embracing Modern C++ Safely, Book Review by ncmncm on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:28PM (#31574524)
Microsoft coders are, as a rule, notoriously bad, always have been.
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Re:Embracing Modern C++ Safely, Book Review by SuperV1234 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @08:10AM (#31580669)
Are you implying that all past and current Microsoft employees are bad coders?
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Re:Embracing Modern C++ Safely, Book Review by ncmncm on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:51AM (#31605832)
Obviously not. But an enduring large fraction are, and remain. And code there is practically never improved or modernized, only patched onto. It is a cultural thing: there is no perceived value in anything but new bullet-item features.
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