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Not Again

Posted Apr 19, 2012 22:10 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: Not Again by juliank
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

You're hardly beginning to scrape the surface of unpredictability.

macro expansion, signed overflow, weird operator precedence, complex coercion rules, bitfield layout and signedness, external linkage name limits, char signedness, errno, the whole mess of #include paths and name conflicts, functions you can never safely use (tmpnam(), gets(), atoi(), signal()), ...


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Not Again

Posted Apr 20, 2012 17:23 UTC (Fri) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]

Of course. I just wanted to point out something that most people most likely don't know about.

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