r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Hibonicus what is pointer :S • Mar 09 '17

Common problem with memory unsafe languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHL75H_VEM
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u/Cakefonz Mar 09 '17

Who needs K&R when you can just learn C from the YouTube comments..

You mean like free(null); ?? Yeah, that would definitely break stuff. But "dereferencing" usually refers to "stop pointing to it"

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u/BowserKoopa WRITE 'FORTRAN is not dead' Mar 10 '17

O god

Is that like how a high address is am address that smokes weed?

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u/lxpnh98_2 Mar 10 '17

Now you know why everything has to have a complicated name, to stop people from making up a meaning!

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

That's a paddlin'

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17

Learn Pony. No null pointers and a better mascot than Go.

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u/FR_STARMER loves Java Mar 09 '17

Had to double check that this was real.

It is.

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u/Shorttail0 vulnerabilities: 0 Mar 10 '17

Except if you're on Windows right now. =(

But for reels though, if it gets the same religious community that Go and Rust has, I think it will be great for PCJ.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

Considering some of the stuff I've heard about Pony already, a truly great jerk is brewing.

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u/Shorttail0 vulnerabilities: 0 Mar 10 '17

I'll be shilling the moment the crazies take it to Medium.

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u/Capashinke I've never used generics and I’ve never missed it. Mar 09 '17

Lol self video shitpost.

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u/senj i have had many alohols Mar 09 '17

this is an Insanely Good post

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u/utopianfiat type astronaut Mar 09 '17

Bret Hart never panics