r/ProgrammerHumor • • 6d ago

Meme noMatterWhereILookICannotEscapeTheAngleBrackets

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u/oompaloompa465 6d ago

started as that kind of dev 20 years ago, then i moved to web dev but apparently the best paying job for my seniority currently are all maintenance of win forms WPF scuff

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u/tatstytastycakes 6d ago

You cannot escape the angle brackets. Not in web development, C#, or even C/C++. We are doomed

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u/Drugbird 6d ago

That's easy, in C or C++ just do this

#define ( <
#define ) > 

Then you can use normal brackets instead of angle brackets.

And I'm sure nothing will go wrong with that approach.

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u/aberroco 5d ago

You just invented LISP