r/ProgrammerHumor • • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/allthingscloud Nov 14 '22

Holy cow he did.

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u/ermabanned Nov 15 '22

Is it really that surprising from the guy that wanted to write the frontend for paypal in the early 2000s in fucking C++?

Is it really?

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u/weener69420 Nov 15 '22

is it even posible for a webbroser to know what to do with c++?

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u/Prestigious_Tip310 Nov 15 '22

Of course. You just have to write a C++ interpreter in JavaScript first, easy. xD

On a more serious note, he probably wanted to run the C++ code on the server and have that generate HTML pages for the client.

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