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A four-panel programming joke escalates the phrase “pointers” into increasingly nested pointers, paired with progressively more eccentric-looking scientists and characters. It is used as a reaction to confusing levels of indirection, recursion, or overly complicated code.

• @profunctor_io / 2172 2019-05-08