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		ncmncm on Sept 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C... It can't shed the old stuff, but it is very, very suspicious -- smelly -- when any of it appears in new code.

shadowgovt on Sept 20, 2022 [–]

It's smelly if you have enough people on the team to know what new code versus old code smells like.

If your developers are coming to the table with some C++ tutorial books written a decade ago, good luck. Invest in a decent linter and opinionated format checker.

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