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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Activity for Lorenzo Donatiā€­

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Answer A: How can we grow this community?
I just submitted a proposal to DuckDuckGo here for a new "bang" for their search syntax. If approved: `!coddsw searchterm` will trigger the following URL: `https://software.codidact.com/posts/search?search=searchterm` I did the same for EE Codidact (here the announcement). I chose the ...
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10 months ago
Answer A: What are disadvantages of static functions (ie functions with internal linkage) in C?
Besides what Olin already said, I guess too many people were taught C using K&R book, which was great at the time, but it completely neglects modern SW engineering best practices (encapsulation, data hiding, modularization, etc.), many of which were popularized to the wider programmer audience by C++...
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10 months ago
Question Unfair accusation in a comment and consequent loss of *actual* reputation
I posted an answer here and IIRC received one or two upvotes. Then a user falsely accused me of copy-pasting from Wikipedia without citing my sources. To that accusation I replied here. However, now my answer is at -3 votes, apparently because of that false accusation. I guess that thi...
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almost 3 years ago
Answer A: constructor in C
Since in your question you seem to be surprised about OOP being done in C, I'll add some more information. There is a difference between Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and an OOP language, such as Java or C++. OOP is a set of concepts and techniques, or, if you feel more enlightened, a progr...
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almost 3 years ago