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Jul 2012

Lucky Pointing

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"When I look at the way that my predecessor wrote his code," Benedikt B wrote, "I can't help but wonder if he understood pointers as well as Kramer understood write-offs."

"The fact that our C++-based application manages to not crash for nearly a whole day is nothing short of a miracle, especially since the only decision process behind whether to use &, *, ::, or –> seemed to be whichever compiles and recovers the cleanest after a try/catch failure.