Stop Calling Malloc

STOP CALLING MALLOC • MEMORY WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ALLOCATED • YEARS OF PROGRAMMING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for using more than the STACK • Wanted more memory anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "GUESSING THE ADDRESS" • "Yes please CALLOC ten integers. Please REALLOC this pointer" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the computers & vacuum tubes we built for them (This is REAL heap allocation, done by REAL Programmers): calloc c malloc() realloc() free() new & delete C/C++ ???? Free() ??????? ?????? "Hello I would like to apples please" They have played us for absolute fools

A satirical programming meme presents malloc, calloc, realloc, free, and C/C++ as absurdly complicated ways to request memory, with tiny mockups and question marks. The punchline compares programmers to people asking for apples through an unnecessarily elaborate process, mocking low-level memory management and the gap between programming jargon and real-world usefulness. EN: A satirical programming meme presents malloc, calloc, realloc, free, and C/C++ as absurdly complicated ways to request memory, with tiny mockups and question marks. The punchline compares programmers to people asking for apples through an unnecessarily elaborate process, mocking low-level memory management and the gap between programming jargon and real-world usefulness.

• @ithueti / 4662 2021-09-07