The Ultimate Question of Programming, Refactoring, and Everything

[Andrey Karpov]

Yes, you've guessed correctly - the answer is "42". In this article you will find 42 recommendations about coding in C++ that can help a programmer avoid a lot of errors, save time and effort. The author is Andrey Karpov - technical director of "Program Verification Systems", a team of developers, working on PVS-Studio static code analyzer. Having checked a large number of open source projects, we have seen a large variety of ways to shoot yourself in the foot; there is definitely much to share with the readers. Every recommendation is given with a practical example, which proves the currentness of this question. These tips are intended for C/C++ programmers, but usually they are universal, and may be of interest for developers using other languages.

Link: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/the-ultimate-question-of-programming-refactoring-and-everything

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On Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 7:31:53 AM UTC-6, Andrey Karpov wrote:
> Yes, you've guessed correctly - the answer is "42". In this article you will find 42 recommendations about coding in C++ that can help a programmer avoid a lot of errors, save time and effort. The author is Andrey Karpov - technical director of "Program Verification Systems", a team of developers, working on PVS-Studio static code analyzer. Having checked a large number of open source projects, we have seen a large variety of ways to shoot yourself in the foot; there is definitely much to share with the readers. Every recommendation is given with a practical example, which proves the currentness of this question. These tips are intended for C/C++ programmers, but usually they are universal, and may be of interest for developers using other languages.
>
> Link: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/the-ultimate-question-of-programming-refactoring-and-everything

How about posting one or two of your recommendations here? I'm not
intrigued when I see the phrase "C/C++ programmers."


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[Andrey Karpov]

> How about posting one or two of your recommendations here? I'm not
> intrigued when I see the phrase "C/C++ programmers."

I have noticed that there is always some "know-all" who doesn't like C/C++.

C/C++ programmers should be read as C programmers or C++ programmers. I guess nobody gets confused when it is written Java/C# or Java/JavaScript (example: Xx is seeking a Java/JavaScript Engineer for a direct hire position). By analogy, to make the story shorter, a lot of authors, me included, write C/C++, meaning that it is C or C++ language.

[Öö Tiib]

Java/C# have quite same roots but Java/Javascript? Nonsense connection.
Somewhat worse than C/C++ that have lot more roots in common than
Java/Javascript.