Are you tired of wrong llm summaries yet? Well too bad cause I just came across my first one in the wild as I have that feature normally turned off.
I am currently learning C and I am not sure the summary feature is doing me any favors.
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In case you don't know, C is the successor to B (which used imperial variables). There was a planned successor to C called D, which would use all unitless quantities, like they do in Fermi approximations, but it turns out those aren't very good. That's why we have C++ (which supports metric and imperial) instead.
What? Really? I though that's what the strong C metric/imperial (strcmp) function was for
What do you mean "planned successor"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)
That's something else stealing the name. As you can see, the wikipedia page doesn't even mention support for unitless metrics as variable types.
What do you mean by "imperial" variables I've never heard of this
Whenever you compile them, they play the Imperial March
It is by contrast of non imperial variables.
Experial variables, they’re called.