C arrays instead of pointer-length pairs
dennis ritchie when deciding that c arrays can just be ptr instead of (ptr, len) This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years
An astronaut in a spacecraft cockpit is captioned as Dennis Ritchie deciding that C arrays can be represented only by a pointer instead of a pointer-and-length pair. The punchline references the long-term memory-safety and bounds-tracking problems caused by losing the array length, exaggerating the consequence as costing 51 years. It is used as a programming reaction meme about questionable C design decisions and technical debt.
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- Template
- This Little Maneuver Is Gonna Cost Us meme
- Type
- image
- Size
- 800×544 · 66.2 KiB
- Mood
- sarcastic, absurd
- Language
- en
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