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Not everything is a nail...

Not everything is a nail...

Posted Jan 22, 2011 1:25 UTC (Sat) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432)
In reply to: Not everything is a nail... by jmm82
Parent article: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Which is, of course, my whole point. Why go through the pain and bugs involved with function pointers when the compiler will generate it for you? It baffles me why anyone who advocates using tools to automate tasks (i.e. anyone who writes code) would abandon that principe at some arbitrary level of the development stack.


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