Rubenerd

Feeling a bit homesick for Perl with all this C++ I’ve been writing of late, so I did this. It even forces me to put a newline just like my beloved Perl print function.

#include <iostream>
void print(const std::string message) {
   cout << message;
}

Now that I think about it, we could even bring a touch of home to my Ruby side:

#include <iostream>
void puts(const std::string message) {
   cout << message << endl;
}

I giggled incessantly when writing these, due perhaps to sleep-deprived, broken-ankle, exam-anxiety induced state.

Alternatively, I could have just done this:

#include <string>
#include <stdio.h>
void print(const std::string message) {
   printf(message.c_str());
}

But we all know how much C++ folks love when we mix in C stuff that has a C++ equivalent. I think I’ll stop now. #fallsasleep

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