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by mark-r 3688 days ago
I went to the Internet Archive just to see what all the fuss was about. Hate to say it, but I agree with the detractors. He seems to be completely missing the concept of preconditions. If the preconditions are met, the code is good; if the preconditions aren't met, undefined behavior occurs. Most people programming C or C++ for more than 10 minutes learn to pay attention to these things. The chapter would have been much better if it would have stuck to the importance of validating preconditions, rather than simply pretending they don't exist.

Good riddance.