while(1) ;
Std::cin.get()

I am tired of these when learning cpp. Unnecesary rant!

What's the question?

@RememberMe I was ranting but have choosen wrong type of post. Question: Why some developers are technology impaired?

@aviophile ah that wasn't particularly clear from the post.

Also, eh?

Basicly, i was tired of adding one of these statements at the end to hang the program console so it does not shut down.

@aviophile yeah I agree that gets pretty annoying. I use a debug macro that the compiler defines when compiling in debug/release mode to switch it on or off automatically when using Visual Studio.

VS defines the _DEBUG macro when in debug mode, you can use this to automatically switch on/off the cin.get()

Similar tricks for other compilers (I think NDEBUG macro is portable)

then use an external cmd instance and start it from there

or simply write only std::cin.get(); there isn't really any point in that infinite while thingy

@s0LA that's pretty much what I was saying too.

@Krokoklemme you dare tell me leave visual studio play button and use command line like peasants? Never!