Blog post argues undefined behavior in C and C++ is not acceptable

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A post on Hacker News links to a blog by developer Ben Habets titled 'Attention people who think UB is fine,' addressing undefined behavior in programming languages. The article, published on the author's blog, takes a critical stance toward those who consider undefined behavior acceptable. The submission received 3 points and one comment on Hacker News at the time it was captured. The provided text contains only the link metadata and not the full article body, so the specific arguments made cannot be confirmed from this source alone.

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