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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by jcelerier on Friday June 03, 2022 @03:13AM (#31605176)
> because otherwise you get a mix of different C++ styles in your codebase which leads to nobody being able to maintain it.

I'd be really interested in meeting someone who has enough mental flexibility to learn C++ but not enough to accommodate different code styles in a single codebase.

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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by ncmncm on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:25AM (#31605685)
Yes. It is always easy to see what generation a piece of code is from. Trying to maintain a "consistent style" just amounts to failing to improve.

If you are not embarrassed by your old code, you have not learned anything since.

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