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		ben_w on Nov 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern C++ Programming Course I've had the misfortune of needing to fix the C++ from someone who neither knew nor cared what STL and smart pointers are.

Jtsummers on Nov 28, 2023 | [–]

I'm still trying to clean up the mess from someone who knew what STL and smart pointers were, and then made their own broken smart pointers (their version of shared_ptr has a particularly nasty bug).

pif on Nov 28, 2023 | [–]

You mean someone who learnt Visual C++ from Microsoft and was conned to think he knew C++?

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