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		fouronnes3 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++: terser (shorter) lambda == SHORTY (ab-use?) Little reminder that there once was a "C++ error message competition" [0] where your score was measured as "the size of the error message divided by the size of the source code". The winning entry had a score of 5.9 billion. [0] https://tgceec.tumblr.com/post/74534916370/results-of-the-gr...

tempodox 9 months ago [–]

2014 but still hilarious, although the winner had nothing to do with templates.

From one of the entries:

> Extra credit for using Perl, which is the only language less readable than C++ templates.

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