   INTS R TEH EVEILL!!!1
  I found this article to be amusing, didnt you?(my lounge spamming technique is geting better by the minute )   [Hugo Ferreira][Positronic Dreams][Colibri 3D Engine][Entropy HL2 MOD]    [Yann  L.][Enginuity]  [Penny Arcade]  [MSDN][VS  RoadMap][Humus][BSPs][UGP][NeHe]"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure." 
  Is that article for real?It can't be. Especially the part about write 100,000 pairs of ints versus a lump of 200,000 ints. Jesus. He's right when he doesn't know how int works. Or how compilers or computers work, for that matter.   [edited by - TSwitch on February 18, 2004 1:37:17 AM];quote:Original post by TSwitch  Is that article for real?Um, it says it''s a parody. ;  As mentioned at the head of the article, it''s a parody of an earlier article exhorting programmers not to use .NET''s built-in XML serialization.   "Sneftel is correct, if rather vulgar." --Flarelocke ;  My fav was this one:quote:9. It is weird "int" does a lot of cunning work. This means that it doesn''t necessarily behave the way you might expect. When you divide by 0, for example, exceptions get thrown.;  Seems I skipped right over that. I was getting afraid, very afraid, because none of it made sense. I thought I was having a stroke. ;quote:The odds are you don''t really know how "int" works. I certainly don''t.Obviously. ;  "2 plus 2 is 4, 2 plus 2 is 4, 2 plus 2 is 4......." ;quote:Original post by MrBeaner  My fav was this one:quote:9. It is weird "int" does a lot of cunning work. This means that it doesn''t necessarily behave the way you might expect. When you divide by 0, for example, exceptions get thrown. Damn...I was about to quote the same thing. ;  No, no...it gets better. quote:5. It is not secure Using "int" is inherently insecure. It''s bit format is widely known.  In addition, "int" works by creating "bits", either a 1 or a 0. Disk files on disk containing 1''s and 0''s will pose a potential security risk.   If, instead, you implement the IInt interface, then, even if you''re not exposing bits through your classes, anyone can see your bits anyway, since "int" is a public type. -=Lohrno 