Comments on: C++ is the spawn of satan http://meat.net/2007/09/cplusplus-is-the-spawn-of-satan/ David Terrell's blog Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:25:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Keith http://meat.net/2007/09/cplusplus-is-the-spawn-of-satan/#comment-224 Keith Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:11:00 +0000 http://meat.net/2007/09/c-is-the-spawn-of-satan/#comment-224 In the discussion between you and I that spawned this, its not even C++ being evil that is the problem. Its the craptastic C API I'm programming against that has a generic void* argument that can be a pointer sometimes and an integer other times. Maybe 15 years ago that seemed like a good idea, but, dammit, just make two function calls or something. Oh wait, no function overloading in C. Its C that is satan...which I guess, you're right, make C++ the span of Satan. In the discussion between you and I that spawned this, its not even C++ being evil that is the problem. Its the craptastic C API I’m programming against that has a generic void* argument that can be a pointer sometimes and an integer other times. Maybe 15 years ago that seemed like a good idea, but, dammit, just make two function calls or something. Oh wait, no function overloading in C.

Its C that is satan…which I guess, you’re right, make C++ the span of Satan.

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