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What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? (self.programming)
submitted 9 months ago by mac to c/programming
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[โ€“] spartanatreyu 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Some small nits to fix:

  1. C has it's own undefined behavior.

  2. JS has confusing behavior, not undefined behavior. Its specs are well defined and backwards compatible to a fault, making some things unintuitive and harder to learn if you don't learn the history of the language.

  3. Problems with both should be avoided by learning and using standard practices. (Don't pretend C is object oriented, always use === instead of == in js, etc...)

In complete agreement:

  1. Result types are awesome, all future languages should be designed around them.
[โ€“] owsei 2 points 9 months ago

thank you very much.

By undefined I meant the usage of undefined in the language, however you phrased it way better :)