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You probably did dodge a bullet. The correct answer to every engineering question is "it depends". :)


There were so many other little ones, like bit-shifting signed integers, which is compiler dependent. I lol’d when they told me I didn’t know C well enough. Like bro, I learned on Borland C, then Microsoft (Visual) C, now mostly gcc/clang C. I don’t know C at all.




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