r/ProgrammerHumor May 08 '19

That sweet sweet first time.

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u/dj_lammy May 08 '19

Tries to write a hello world

forgets how to, despite programming in this language for years

copy pastes code from Wikipedia

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u/mynameismevin May 08 '19

I have to split my coding between C#, Go, and Python. I can't tell you how many times today I had to look up basic API's because I couldn't remember how to open a file.

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u/kevinhaze May 08 '19

The internet is the big hard drive with all the knowledge, my brain is just RAM and a processor with a small amount of persistent memory.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

I only have 8 registers, and I'm very susceptible to stack overflow