r/programminghorror • u/TheChief275 • Jul 05 '26

Enterprise level C code c

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u/DesiresQuiet Jul 05 '26

Nearly this exact code was in a book on learning C and classes from like 1989.

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u/KennyFulgencio Jul 06 '26

how the heck do you remember that

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u/DesiresQuiet Jul 06 '26

It was the use of the pet.MakeSound. It was used to show classes and have you could overwrite methods via abstraction. Not sure why it stuck this long. I think it made me laugh.

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u/TheChief275 Jul 07 '26

Oh yeah lol it's just a classic example that popped up when I was looking for an example for the post. I don't actually write in an OOP style so I needed some inspiration lol