The Crooked and the Straight

If you're using malloc to instantiate a C++ class, I'd like to throw you in a sack and toss the sack in a river and hurl the river into space¹.

Not knowing what an assertion is shouldn't dissuade you from being a developer, but not caring what an assertion is should.

Casting everything to Object is not the right way to fix compiler type warnings.

Comments can be used for purposes other than skipping over code that won't compile.

¹ with apologies to Futurama 2ACV12, The Deep South.