[weblacky]

Well the C-style languages are by far not my favorite. I also have to agree on a few of these points but the biggest point I would say wasn’t directly brought up in the previous post is the in-line IF or in-line conditional.

I remember a very famous Apple bug that appeared somewhere in 2007 or 2008 I believe we’re a whole certificate check didn’t take place because the person who modified the code at Apple didn’t understand the difference between an in-line IF and a block-style.

It actually made it out to production and made the news that’s when I sort of learned about that shorthand because I was never taught it originally.


So personal advice number one when it comes to C-style programming do not use implied coverage like the single line conditional statements unless you have an incredibly complex nested functional expression single liner.

Even though it “wastes space”. Use a block-style conditional for all things that aren’t a functional expression.