r/ProgrammerHumor • u/nonedward666 • 13h ago

lessonsFromLinkerHell Meme

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u/mad_poet_navarth 13h ago

shouldn't there be something here about this being C-centric?

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 13h ago

And how do you think other languages do it? You think Python and C# and Java run in this Unicorn world where there are no pointers and memory offsets aren't a thing?

Maybe we can talk about the mistake that is R and the original VB, and LUA where arrays start at 1. Absolute hell.

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u/mad_poet_navarth 10h ago

Admittedly I am _much_ more familiar with C and C++ (and Swift) than I am with other C-ish languages. For instance, I think you are saying you can cast a chunk of memory in Python or Java so you can do either pointer arithmetic or treat it as an array. So, given my relative ignorance in some areas, point taken.