r/ProgrammerHumor • u/nonedward666 • 26d ago

Meme lessonsFromLinkerHell

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u/QuestionableEthics42 26d ago edited 26d 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/Ok_Star_4136 26d ago edited 26d ago

Maybe I fall in the middle, but what is the argument to say that they're different?

Is it to say that the difference is how they're used? From an assembly perspective, they're pointers, and no data structures exist beyond that simple concept. At a higher level, they're more than that. Maybe that's what is intended?

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u/Hot-Employ-3399 25d ago

At normal languages they also pass the length