On: The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)

[throwphoton]

Interesting. Not casting a void pointer return value seems like a bit of a shibboleth for the "C is not a subset of C++" community.

[enriquto → throwphoton]

A "better" shibboleth is using "new" and "old" as identifiers. It serves as a good barrier to avoid accidental C++ compilation.