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Nice "No true Scotsman" logic there. Sure, if you see multiple question marks as an indicator of unprofessionalism, then by definition, no professional would use that. At the same time, your definition of professional is not one that is useful in any other context. In code written by people whose job it is, in part, to write code, i.e. what I would call professionals, multiple question marks do sometimes occur.
Did I really produce a Scotsman there? I would break it down like this: * Professionals want to appear professional to the people who pay them. * People who read the code can have an influence on the people who select which professional gets hired. (At least negatively if they find examples of poor practices.) * Professionals therefore avoid any behavior that would be interpreted as unprofessional. * Multiple questio…
Re: C, what the fuck??!
#21I think that last point illustrates the problem: you base your idea of "professional" on the professionals you have worked with or whose code you have read, who might not write such things. At the same time, in code I have read, I have seen it in ways that did not look out of place to me. What that tells me is that this is not a professional vs. unprofessional thing, it is just different programming norms. It is similar to how I think we can agree that neither tabs nor spaces are unprofessional, but insisting on either in a codebase already written using the other style is.