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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you do C, and avoid pointers, do tell me what the point is using the language at all?

I mean if memory management is "the only way to shoot yourself in the foot" in C, then thats a quite big part of the language!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

But it's a single problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you do C, and avoid pointers, do tell me what the point is using the language at all?

Person is saying that C has one big footgun, while C++ has armory of them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

C is like one big problem then :-D

C++ lots of smaller problems: divide & conquer baby!