Little things that matter in language design
Little things that matter in language design
Posted Jun 8, 2013 2:46 UTC (Sat) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793)In reply to: Little things that matter in language design by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: Little things that matter in language design
+1
I learned octal much latter than hexadecimal, and the only use is when creating files.
Even if I code in C since 1990, once or two times per year I still get bitten by "octal bugs". My brain forgets that C and math numbers are not the same.
OTOH, trigraph warnings occur more or less with the same frequency. If they didn't got disabled until now, this is a lost cause...