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“C has known memory footguns. C++, due to its complexity, has footnukes.” - Hacker News comment

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“C has known memory footguns. C++, due to its complexity, has footnukes.” - Hacker News comment

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Programmer Humor · 4 months ago

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The quote is a derivative of something Bjarne Stroustrup said himself¹.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off

1: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html
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  A citation with a superscript number reference in a comment? Impressive.
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  Makes sense C++ makes everything harder

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