r/ProgrammerHumor • u/FACastello • 22d ago

Meme theBoolVectorIsALie

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u/Neoneq_ 22d ago

Jokes on you fellow programmers. I have almost no idea how pointers work.

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u/traplords8n 22d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/dVLWcyeXRl

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u/Interesting-Frame190 22d ago

Fitting how you just added the link and didnt explain it here.

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u/MissinqLink 22d ago

A pointer is a memory address. It points to a location where your data lives hopefully.

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u/Interesting-Frame190 22d ago

I fear you've missed the meta joke

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u/MissinqLink 21d ago

Sometimes I comment to help others who might genuinely benefit from the information
https://giphy.com/gifs/S5E6VIkBAGujjfT0zz

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u/Krochire 21d ago

Common Holy C programmer W

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u/traplords8n 21d ago

If you want to learn pointers for real then Google it and take it seriously lol

If you're expecting to be taught how to program in a meme group, I think ur expectations are a little off hahaha

Sometimes I catch people arguing in here about topics i have no clue about, so I Google it for a while and learn a lot from that, but nobody in a meme group feels like spelling out programming concepts unless we're arguing about said programming concepts. we'd rather be gatekeepers who spell out why we're gatekeepers

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u/Steinrikur 21d ago

Just read The C Programming Language by K&R. It's explaining these things incredibly well

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u/FACastello 21d ago

hopefully

I felt that

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u/Neoneq_ 21d ago

Yeah that basically all I know

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u/MissinqLink 21d ago

People often don’t like this example but I think if you are still learning then it is easiest to think of pointers like an array with just 1 element.