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I don’t think there’s ever been a single statement made about C++ code that didn’t have at least one person come by to explain why it’s incomplete or wrong, and then the same thing happening to that reply itself

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That's just Muphry's law (if you write a correction, it will have mistakes in it)

*Murhpy's law

I can't tell if that's a joke I didn't understand, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

i love this. I totally was in the Murphy camp lol, everyone says that...? or is it phoneticlaly the same?? o.O Muphry.

Murphy's law is the general case. Muphry’s law is a joke on that specific to writing/spelling. The "*Murhpy's law" comment was a joke of the joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

There's that guy Bjarne Stroustrup, he wrote a book and I heard there are statements in it.

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