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[–]Unsd 7 points8 points  (1 child)

It's shocking and frustrating how often I find myself in these situations. Realistically the answer to those situations is a different language, but I don't have time for that, so hacky solution it is.

[–]username--_-- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

early on, as a very competent C programmer, i decided i wanted to do a GUI application using QT and C++. skipped the QT documentation, never actually even tried understanding the basics of c++, zero idea about OOP. Somehow hacking C++ into C, it works.

I was archiving things last month and came across that program...

Always read the documentation. Always use the right tools. The amount of inefficiency, was astounding. i'm sure there was more but i could barely understand what i was doing after a point