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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

You’re right. It’s a stop gap, but when you’re talking about a code base that has been maintained for 20 years plus you can’t really sell re-implementation.

Most recently it was with an older version of C++ using shared pointers.