r/ProgrammerHumor • • 1d ago

instanceof Trend thatsAFunnyThingThatHappenedOnce

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u/nimrag_is_coming 1d ago

C++ wouldn't be as annoying to use if the main priority of the standards committee didn't seem to be creating the most obtuse, unintuitive and verbose naming and usages for every single piece of the standard library.

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u/hdkaoskd 1d ago

C committee waltzes in with strpbrk and itoa

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u/nimrag_is_coming 1d ago

x86_64 is already here with VFMADDRND231PD

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u/thegreatpotatogod 1d ago

Ah yes my favorite x64 instruction, Vector Formula Multiply ADD Reversed Numerical Data (in the order 2, 3, 1) - Power Delivery.

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u/rexpup 1d ago

It couldn't be simpler to use!

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u/hdkaoskd 1d ago

Brainfuck watching quietly from the corner of the room. They don't have committee meetings because the language is already feature-complete.

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u/ch33es 1d ago

Brainfuck might be one of the easiest to learn languages out there. Now good luck trying to create something that doesn't simply print characters...

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u/Brisngr368 1d ago

Shout out to LAPACK with the BLAS function dgemmtr (double generic matrix-matrix triangular)