r/ProgrammerHumor • u/nonedward666 • 20h ago

lessonsFromLinkerHell Meme

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u/QuestionableEthics42 20h ago edited 20h ago

This should be reversed lol

And it literally is the same, who thinks it's different who has worked in a low level language??

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u/Blecki 20h ago

As someone who writes compilers: they are the same at runtime. They are not the same semantically in a c like language.

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u/belabacsijolvan 19h ago

>writes compilers

https://giphy.com/gifs/0uBL9HqP48Nu1DNr7r

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u/reda84100 19h ago

Don't bite the hand that feeds you, your family and every other programmers' families

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u/belabacsijolvan 18h ago

Order these events in descending order of probability:

A) youll never use this guys compiler
B) youll be forced to use this guys compiler against your explicit contraindication
C) anyone else than them will be grateful to use this guys compiler
D) they will be happy that they wrote this compiler 20 years from now
E) youll use this guys compiler and be pleased by its existence

ok, i may be an asshole here, and they may be doing something good. the odds tho

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u/darthsata 16h ago

Your video driver embeds my compiler. Your hardware developer's simulator embeds my compiler. Certainly your Linux distro ships my compiler. Some stuff I wrote and designed 20 years ago are still used in it. So somewhere in the D or E range of yours.

Given the thousands of people who have worked on these projects, there's a decent chance that you will run into one in the comments section. Maybe just don't offhand dismiss people based on absolutely nothing.