[fish2000]

Do not use magic. — Strongly agree.

Do not use macros. — Absolutely I agree: I involuntarily grimace whenever I look at and/or things like Boost MPL, or the wartier corners of the Python C-API’s underbelly, etc. I only use macros as straight-up batched ⌘-C-⌘-V:

    #define DECLARE_IT(type, value) extern const type{ value }
    DECLARE_IT(int, 0);
    DECLARE_IT(int, 1);
    DECLARE_IT(float, 0.0f); // etc
    #undef DECLARE_IT

Do not use typedefs to hide pointers […] — I cannot stand it when people do this. That asterisk is as syntactically valuable to you, the programmer, as it is essential to your program’s function. If the standard library can slap asterisks on file and directory handles than so can you (and by “you” I specifically include whoever wrote the `gzip` API among other things).

[…] or to avoid writing “struct” — Huh, actually I feel the opposite, I think all those “struct” identifiers are clutterific, much like excessive “typename” id’s in C++ template declarations. But so aside from the points where I totally disagree with the author, I absolutely feel the same way 100%.